Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Multi-hazard designs. Seismic excitation. Damage. Vehicle collisions. Tsunamis. Storm surges. Blast loads. Nonlinear finite ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Seismic performance. Horizontal boundary elements (HBE). Plastic hinge formation. Pushover analyses. Nonlinear time-history analyses. Deformations. Ground ...

Indeco North America (INA), a Milford, Connecticut-based company that provides heavy-duty hydraulic breakers, compactors, crushers and pedestal booms for demolition, mining, recycling and road ...

Score another small victory for more-constructible high-rises, especially in seismic zones. Results of recent load tests on a "sandwich" shear-wall assembly, designed to simplify and speed ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction has released Design Guide 38, SpeedCore Systems for Steel Structures. The document pertains to the nonproprietary concrete-filled composite steel plate ...

When the Sparc apartment in Bellevue is finished this summer, the 104-unit building will have a contemporary skin that disguises a new hybrid structural engineering system. The system, designed by ...

SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, Vol. 6, No. 2 (April 2013), pp. 279-285 (7 pages) ABSTRACT Failure modes and fatigue behaviors of ultrasonic spot welds in lap-shear specimens ...

As the name implies, the Short Beam Shear test subjects a beam to bending, just as flexural testing methods do, but the beam is very short relative to its thickness. For example, ASTM D 2344 1 ...