Assessment and Retrofit of Masonry Structures

Assessment and Retrofit of Masonry Structures
Author: Ahmad A. Hamid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre: Buildings
ISBN: 9781929081608

This book provides background, reference material, and guidance to design professionals, building owners, and contractors on existing masonry. Construction characteristics of masonry structures, typical material properties, and analytical approaches are included for historic, transitional, and modern masonry construction typologies. The main focus of the book is structural stabilization, strengthening, and retrofit with maintenance and serviceability items (such as water penetration and cleaning) addressed as subtopics.This book also incorporates discussion on the evaluation and retrofit process, site investigation and analysis, retrofit, monitoring, and maintenance. Assessment and retrofit projects conducted by the authors are presented as case studies to highlight technical issues and illustrate the process of developing a rational methodology for different types of masonry assessment and retrofit projects.Assessment and retrofit projects conducted by the authors are presented in a special Chapter as case studies to highlight technical issues and illustrate the process of developing a rational assessment and retrofit methodology for different types of masonry assessment and retrofit projects.

Advanced Design Examples of Seismic Retrofit of Structures

Advanced Design Examples of Seismic Retrofit of Structures
Author: Mohammad Yekrangnia
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2018-09-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0081025351

Advanced Design Examples of Seismic Retrofit of Structures provides insights on the problems associated with the seismic retrofitting of existing structures. The authors present various international case studies of seismic retrofitting projects and the different possible strategies on how to handle complex problems encountered. Users will find tactics on a variety of problems that are commonly faced, including problems faced by engineers and authorities who have little or no experience in the practice of seismic retrofitting. - Provides several examples of retrofitting projects that cover different structural systems, from non-engineered houses, to frame buildings - Presents various retrofitting methods through examples - Provides detailed, step-by-step design procedures for each example - Includes real retrofit projects with photos of the details of various retrofitting techniques - Contains several modeling details and hints making use of various software in this area

Strengthening and Retrofitting of Existing Structures

Strengthening and Retrofitting of Existing Structures
Author: Aníbal Costa
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2017-10-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 981105858X

This book presents the fundamentals of strengthening and retrofitting approaches, solutions and technologies for existing structures. It addresses in detail specific techniques for the strengthening of traditional constructions, reinforced concrete buildings, bridges and their foundations. Finally, it discusses issues related to standards and economic decision support tools for retrofitting.

Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings

Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1993-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781568069920

Provides design professionals & local building officials with a standard methodology to evaluate buildings of different types & occupancies in areas of different seismicity throughout the U.S.

Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Columns

Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Columns
Author: Konstantinos G. Megalooikonomou
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2019-05
Genre: Columns, Concrete
ISBN: 9781527527850

Reinforced concrete columns play a very important role in structural performance. As such, it is essential to apply a suitable analytical tool to estimate their structural behaviour considering all failure mechanisms such as axial, shear, and flexural failures. This book highlights the development of a fiber beam-column element accounting for shear effects and the effect of tension stiffening through reinforcement-to-concrete bond, along with the employment of suitable constitutive material laws.

Retrofitting Design of Building Structures

Retrofitting Design of Building Structures
Author: Xilin Lu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2010-03-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1420091794

Retrofitting of building structures, including maintenance, rehabilitation, and strengthening, is not only an important issue in urban construction and management, but also a frequent problem to structural engineers in property management disciplines. Based on the contributors' hands-on experience, Retrofitting Design of Building Structures covers

Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings

Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings
Author: Aníbal Costa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2013-09-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642396860

This present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and elements within the main buildings typologies, and it analyses the particularities of each of them, including, at the end, general aspects concerning laboratory and in-situ testing, numerical modeling, vulnerability assessment and construction maintenance.