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Punching is a possible failure mode for slender footings and it may lead a structure to ruin through progressive collapse. Although footing present different geometric characteristics, their punching ...

Wind shear is defined as the change in wind speed, wind direction, or both, over some distance. You may have heard airplane pilots talk about turbulence and warn passengers that they’re in for a bumpy ...

Civil Engineering College of Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China. Truss is a structure of connected elements forming triangular units, and a bridge whose supporting superstructure is ...

In this paper, the development of non-linear building isolation systems is overviewed. The study summarizes commonly used linear building isolation systems in two categories, which are building base ...

1 Department of Structural Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia/Tongji University (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. In the ...

Punching strength is a critical point in the design of flat slabs and due to the lack of a theoretical method capable of explaining this phenomenon, empirical formulations presented by codes of ...