Punching shear is a type of fragile failure that occurs in flat slabs. The reaction of the column on the slab leads to the appearance of principal stresses that create a punching shear cone. This cone ...

A sustainable and resilient built environment requires structural solutions that minimise the use of high-environmental impact materials, while ensuring sound structural behaviour to extreme events.

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 ...