Browsing by Subject "damage"
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A new shear key for rocking timber shear walls
(Australian Earthquake Engineering Society (AEES), 2013)Allowing shear walls to rock is one way of protecting structures from earthquake damage, or at least minimising this damage. Walls allowed to rock must have the ability to resist both overturning moment, and lateral forces. ... -
A simple and rapid approach for the numerical simulation of non-linear elements and examples of its application
(IOP Publishing, 2019-05)In earthquake design philosophy non-linear inelastic damage is concentrated at predetermined locations in a structure, with the ultimate aim being to keep structural members critical for collapse avoidance, elastic. ...
