This project quantified the improvement in structural behavior of reinforced concrete shear walls retrofitted with a new method that allows the walls to rock over the foundation and self-center after ...
NSF and NEES funded large scale low aspect ratio (height/length) reinforced concrete shear wall testing is underway at SEESL. NSF and NEES funded large scale low aspect ratio (height/length) ...
The building swayed as it would have in the 1999 Jiji earthquake in Taiwan. That magnitude 7.7 quake killed more than 2,000 people. Buildings made of steel and concrete were destroyed. But the ...