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Seismic Performance and Durability of Engineering Structures

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 2191

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Jieqiong Wu

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Key Laboratory of Urban Security and Disaster Engineering, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Interests: durability of concrete structure; structural fatigue analysis; life prediction; earthquake resistance
Prof. Dr. Renbo Zhang

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Faculty of Architecture, Civil and Transportation Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Interests: concrete structures; numerical simulation; coupling of thermal and mechanical behaviour; disaster prevention; impact loading; fire
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Dr. Shenggang Chen

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School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 211116, China
Interests: structural analysis of building and bridge engineering; torsional effects; durability of concrete structure; corrosion; composite structures

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The seismic performance and durability of engineering structures have significant importance for humans, considering the variety of factors that they influence including safety, economy, environment, and society. For engineering structures, their durability refers to the ability to withstand anticipated service conditions including the loading conditions and environmental actions. The loading conditions, especially the cyclic loads, attract the attention of researchers, since the occurrences of highly devastating earthquakes in China, Chile, Japan, and other countries have caused significant damage to engineering structures. Environmental actions consist of chloride ingress, sulfate attack, the freeze–thaw cycle, etc. However, the rational design and assessment for the seismic performance and durability of structures is not fully understood.

Thus, this Special Issue provides a forum for recent studies on the seismic performance and durability of engineering structures. Topics of interest for this Special Issue may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Engineering structures such as bridges, buildings, roads, dams, etc.
  • Seismic performance and durability involving the design of new structures, the assessment of existing buildings, etc.
  • Contributions dealing with new investigations/insights for innovative designs for the seismic performance and durability of structures, which broaden the understanding of the behavior of engineering structures, are particularly welcome.

Prof. Dr. Jieqiong Wu
Prof. Dr. Renbo Zhang
Dr. Shenggang Chen
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • engineering structures
  • seismic performance
  • durability design
  • durability assessment
  • environmental action
  • load effects

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Seismic Response and Collapse Analysis of a Transmission Tower Structure: Assessing the Impact of the Damage Accumulation Effect
by Pingping Nie, Haiqing Liu, Yunlong Wang and Siyu Han
Buildings 2024, 14(7), 2243; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14072243 - 21 Jul 2024
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This paper delves into the impact of the damage accumulation effect, which leads to the degradation of material strength and stiffness, on the seismic resistance of transmission towers. Building upon the elastic–plastic finite element theory, a mixed hardening constitutive model is derived for [...] Read more.
This paper delves into the impact of the damage accumulation effect, which leads to the degradation of material strength and stiffness, on the seismic resistance of transmission towers. Building upon the elastic–plastic finite element theory, a mixed hardening constitutive model is derived for circular steel tubes, standard elements in transmission towers, incorporating the damage accumulation effect. A user material subroutine, UMAT, is created within the LS–DYNA framework. The program’s validity and reliability are established through axial constant–amplitude loading tests on single steel tubes. The subroutine is employed to conduct the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) of an individual transmission tower and to contrast it with the structure utilizing the Plastic Kinematic material model, assessing the discrepancies in tower top displacements and segment damage indices (SDIs) at both macroscopic and microscopic scales. The results shows that the Plastic Kinematic model inflates the seismic performance of the transmission tower. When considering the damage accumulation effect in structural failure, the damage index of the members increases, leading to a reduction in both the structural strength and stiffness. The dynamic response in the plastic phase becomes more pronounced, and the onset of structural failure is accelerated. Consequently, structural analysis under seismic conditions should account for the damage accumulation process. Through the delineation of member and segment damage, the extent of damage to transmission tower segments can be quantitatively assessed. Subsequently, the ultimate load–bearing capacity and the most vulnerable location of the transmission tower can be ascertained. Finally, this paper provides a detailed analysis of the transmission tower collapse process under seismic action and summarizes the mechanism of collapse for the structure. Full article
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Calculation of Characteristic Point Parameters for Restoring Model of Corroded Short-Pier RC Shear Walls
by Qing Qin, Haojie Cheng, Chenghua Zhang and Sha Ding
Buildings 2024, 14(5), 1293; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14051293 - 3 May 2024
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Based on the quasi-static tests of 12 corroded RC (reinforced concrete) shear walls, it was found that reinforcement corrosion has a great influence on the skeleton curve of RC shear walls. With an increase in the degree of corrosion, the bearing capacity of [...] Read more.
Based on the quasi-static tests of 12 corroded RC (reinforced concrete) shear walls, it was found that reinforcement corrosion has a great influence on the skeleton curve of RC shear walls. With an increase in the degree of corrosion, the bearing capacity of specimens decreases, and the deformation capacity worsens. Increasing the diameter of longitudinal reinforcements can significantly improve the bearing capacity of corroded RC shear walls, while the deformation capacity of corroded specimens can be improved by increasing the lateral distributed reinforcement or the transverse reinforcement in the embedded column. In order to accurately evaluate the seismic performance of corroded RC shear walls, we considered descent segments of four broken-line models to estimate the skeleton curve. After considering the influence of corrosion on the parameters of the characteristic point for the skeleton curve, the calculation formulas of the characteristic point parameters of the skeleton curve for the corroded RC shear wall were determined based on the test data fitting. It was proven that the formula for the characteristic point parameters for the skeleton curve of corroded RC shear walls has good applicability. This study lays a theoretical foundation for the seismic performance evaluation of an RC shear wall structure in a salt fog environment. It provides a theoretical basis for further improving the life-cycle seismic capacity evaluation system for RC structures. Full article
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