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State of the Art and Research Needs in Design for Tornadoes: Structural Engineering Institute Workshop Report

September 30, 2024
Author(s)
Donald Scott, Jennifer Goupil, Shane Crawford, Alex Griffin, Cherylyn Henry, Marc Levitan, Franklin Lombardo, John van de Lindt, Peter Vickery
The Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) has a long history of working with NIST and other federal partners to improve ASCE/SEI 7 Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criterial for Buildings and Other Structures, the national loading standard. Following

Construction Quality and Assurance for Functional Recovery Design

September 6, 2024
Author(s)
Jakub Valigura, Dustin Cook, Siamak Sattar
As part of the ACI 374A Subcommittee on Design of Reinforced Concrete Structure for Functional Recovery, the authors held six expert panel discussions with experts in various aspects of building design and construction. The goal of the discussions was to

Database-assisted-design facilitating performance-based tall building design

July 17, 2024
Author(s)
Daniel Rhee, Sophie Sisson, Brian Carman, Mehedy Mashnad, DongHun Yeo
In recent years, wind design, particularly for high-rise buildings, has seen a paradigm shift from a code-based descriptive method to a more specific performance-objective-based design. This new approach, known as the Performance-Based Wind Design (PBWD)

Functional Recovery in Modern Reinforced Concrete Buildings

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Dustin Cook, ABBIE LIEL, Amir Safiey
In the field of structural engineering, functional recovery is a new, but non-standardized building design objective intended to improve a building's capacity to maintain or rapidly restore basic intended functions after a hazard event, such as an

Assessing Structural Performance Using Energy

June 30, 2024
Author(s)
Kevin K F Wong
Buildings in seismic regions are designed to sustain significant damage during major earthquakes with collapse. Traditional linear design procedures use a force-based approach to size the building structural members. Alternatively, performance-based

Building Seismic Stability - Code Provisions vs. Inelastic Behavior

June 30, 2024
Author(s)
Larry Fahnestock, Shitao Shi, Matthew Speicher
In a building, seismic stability is provided when the internal restoring forces resist the effective earthquake forces plus the destabilizing effects of gravity that arise when the building displaces laterally. Although this concept can be succinctly

Lessons from the 2023 Southeast Turkiye Earthquakes: A Study on Damaged RC Buildings Considering the Hassan Index

June 30, 2024
Author(s)
Cemalettin Donmez, Jeff Dowgala, Meltem Eryilmaz-Yildirim, Muhammet Fethi Gullu, Lissette Iturburu, Fahri Baran Koroglu, Remy Lesquesne, Baki Ozturk, Santiago Pujol, Julian Rincon, Chungwook Sim, Matthew Speicher
A survey was conducted across 10 cities in Southeast Türkiye to classify damage in 242 reinforced concrete (RC) buildings constructed in the last 15 years, ranging from 2 to 16 stories. The 'robustness' of these buildings was quantified using ratios of
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