Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Columns

Download or read book Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Columns written by Konstantinos G. Megalooikonomou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.