Keywords: In-span plastic hinge; Experimental; Steel plate shear walls; Seismic performance; Deterioration and failure modes; Deterioration model; Collapse potential; Collapse fragility curve; Seismic ...
Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Multi-hazard designs. Seismic excitation. Damage. Vehicle collisions. Tsunamis. Storm surges. Blast loads. Nonlinear finite ...
The tall shear wall system was developed through a series of studies and advancements by Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA). “The system is an evolution of many years of our work with composite ...
IN THE CANS Key to the steel-plate, shear-wall core are large-diameter pipe columns filled with 10,000-psi concrete. (Photo courtesy of JAJones/Absher) At the $215-million U.S. Federal Courthouse in ...