Product Description

This volume results from a European project dealing with the 'reliability of moment resistant connections of steel frames in seismic areas' It is a must have for engineerse who want to be at the cutting edge of design in seismic areas.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #3167803 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 672 pages

From the Back Cover
An unexpected brittle failure of connections and members occurred during the last earthquakes of Northridge and Kobe. For this reason a heightened awareness developed in the international scientific community, particularly in the earthquake prone countries of the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe, of the urgent need to investigate this topic.
The contents of this volume result from a European project dealing with the Reliability of moment resistant connections of steel frames in seismic areas (RECOS), developed between 1997-1999 within the INCO-Copernicus joint research projects of the 4th Framework Program.
The 30-month project focused on five key areas:
Analysis and synthesis of research results, including code provisions, in relation to the evidence of the Northridge and Kobe earthquakes
Identification and evaluation through experimental means, of the structural performance of beam-to-column connections under cyclic loading
Setting up of sophisticated models for interpreting the connection response; numerical study on the connection influence on the seismic response of steel buildings; Assesment of new criteria for selecting the behaviour factor for deifferent structural schemes and definition of the corresponding range of validity in relation to the connection typologies.