Although pre-Northridge earthquake steel moment resisting frame buildings have been shown to be susceptible to brittle connection failures,they still represent a large fraction of the existing steel buildings in the U...Although pre-Northridge earthquake steel moment resisting frame buildings have been shown to be susceptible to brittle connection failures,they still represent a large fraction of the existing steel buildings in the United States of America.In this study,the performance of the 3-and 9-story Los Angeles pre-Northridge SAC buildings are analyzed considering ductile and brittle beam-column connection failures,and their uncertainty.This paper contributes to understanding the influence of uncertainty associated with connections brittle fracture on building interstory deformation capacity and its impact on bias and variability of fragility functions and loss assessment.The results show that considering brittle connections leads to significantly l arger d rift demands a nd t o h igher r epair costs,particularly under intense ground shaking.New fragility curve parameters are derived that account for the effect of the uncertainty of the strength and deformation capacity of brittle connections.展开更多
In this paper, we derive the analytical solutions in a three-dimensional anisotropic magnetoelectroelastic bimaterial space subject to uniform extended dislocations and tractions within a horizontal circular area. By ...In this paper, we derive the analytical solutions in a three-dimensional anisotropic magnetoelectroelastic bimaterial space subject to uniform extended dislocations and tractions within a horizontal circular area. By virtue of the Stroh formalism and Fourier transformation, the final expression of solutions in the physical domain contains only line integrals over [0, 2π] rather than infinite integrals. As the reduced cases, the half-space and homogeneous full-space solutions can be directly derived from the present solutions. Also, in terms of material domains, the present solutions can be reduced to the piezoelectric, piezomagnetic, purely elastic materials with different symmetries of material prop- erty. To carry out numerical calculations, Gauss quadrature is adopted. In the numerical examples, the effect of different loading locations on the response at the interface is analyzed. It is shown that, when the magnetic traction or electric dislocation is applied, the physical quantities on the interface may not decrease monotonically as the loading area moves away from the interface. The distributions of different in-plane physical quantities on the upper and lower interfaces under various extended horizontal loadings are compared and the differences are discussed. The work presented in this paper can serve as benchmarks for future numerical studies in related research fields.展开更多
On August 14th,2008 Xinjiang Tianye Company Ltd.(Xinjiang Tianye) commenced the production of the 400 000 t/a PVC (polyvinyl chloride) project in Shihezi,Xinjiang.The capacity of
文摘Although pre-Northridge earthquake steel moment resisting frame buildings have been shown to be susceptible to brittle connection failures,they still represent a large fraction of the existing steel buildings in the United States of America.In this study,the performance of the 3-and 9-story Los Angeles pre-Northridge SAC buildings are analyzed considering ductile and brittle beam-column connection failures,and their uncertainty.This paper contributes to understanding the influence of uncertainty associated with connections brittle fracture on building interstory deformation capacity and its impact on bias and variability of fragility functions and loss assessment.The results show that considering brittle connections leads to significantly l arger d rift demands a nd t o h igher r epair costs,particularly under intense ground shaking.New fragility curve parameters are derived that account for the effect of the uncertainty of the strength and deformation capacity of brittle connections.
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文摘In this paper, we derive the analytical solutions in a three-dimensional anisotropic magnetoelectroelastic bimaterial space subject to uniform extended dislocations and tractions within a horizontal circular area. By virtue of the Stroh formalism and Fourier transformation, the final expression of solutions in the physical domain contains only line integrals over [0, 2π] rather than infinite integrals. As the reduced cases, the half-space and homogeneous full-space solutions can be directly derived from the present solutions. Also, in terms of material domains, the present solutions can be reduced to the piezoelectric, piezomagnetic, purely elastic materials with different symmetries of material prop- erty. To carry out numerical calculations, Gauss quadrature is adopted. In the numerical examples, the effect of different loading locations on the response at the interface is analyzed. It is shown that, when the magnetic traction or electric dislocation is applied, the physical quantities on the interface may not decrease monotonically as the loading area moves away from the interface. The distributions of different in-plane physical quantities on the upper and lower interfaces under various extended horizontal loadings are compared and the differences are discussed. The work presented in this paper can serve as benchmarks for future numerical studies in related research fields.
文摘On August 14th,2008 Xinjiang Tianye Company Ltd.(Xinjiang Tianye) commenced the production of the 400 000 t/a PVC (polyvinyl chloride) project in Shihezi,Xinjiang.The capacity of
