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Special Issue "Advanced Design & Behavior of Concrete Structures"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2024 | Viewed by 5292

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Fadzli Mohamed Nazri

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School of Civil Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal 14300, Penang, Malaysia
Interests: earthquake engineering; structural engineering; numerical simulation/modeling; infrastructure engineering

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Concrete structures are regarded as the backbone of building a sustainable society, especially when facing natural- and human-caused disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, fire, or blast incidents. This is considered a trending topic in the natural hazard and risk field, and it is critical for protecting human lives and minimizing economic losses. Due to these facts, researchers are working on improving new building components and construction techniques that are being established through innovative computational models, experimental approaches, and disaster prevention and mitigation techniques for various engineering concrete structures such as bridges, buildings, retaining walls, tunnels, dams, and other types.

Moreover, this Special Issue tackles the behavior of concrete structures subjected to dynamic loads due to earthquakes and vibration, a thermal effect due to fire, and blast and fragment impacts that can affect concrete structures that follow different structural systems, including load-bearing, framed, truss, shell, and mass structures. 

This Special Issue serves all researchers, practitioners, and professionals in different engineering, design, and technology sectors. The Special Issue aims to expand the boundaries of knowledge in these fields and provide an international forum for the interchange of information on “Advanced Design and Behavior of Concrete Structures” from around the world.

This Special Issue encompasses fully refereed papers on the practice and progress in the stated fields, in-depth case research papers, project and case study reviews, and discussions on research, innovation, and strategies.

This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of “Advanced Design and Behavior of Concrete Structures” and their applications in various areas, where the following topics are suggested, but submitted papers do not have to be limited to these subjects:

  • Design strategies;
  • Alternative and new technologies;
  • Design, implement, and practice innovation;
  • Experimental and computational simulation of dynamic effects on structures;
  • Code requirements, development, and evaluation;
  • Advanced experimental techniques for concrete; 
  • Advanced modeling technologies for concrete structures;
  • Static and dynamic;
  • Concrete structures under loading and extreme environmental conditions.

Dr. Fadzli Mohamed Nazri
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • dynamic behavior
  • earthquake engineering
  • fire engineering
  • blast and impact load
  • concrete structure
  • advanced design
  • serviceability
  • shell structure

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Seismic Performance of RC Moment Frame Buildings Considering SSI Effects: A Case Study of the New Venezuelan Seismic Code
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Ramón Mata
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Eduardo Nuñez
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Matías Hernández
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Claudio Correa
and
Guillermo Bustamante
Buildings 2023, 13(7), 1694; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13071694 - 02 Jul 2023
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The Soil–Structure Interaction (SSI) effect has been widely evidenced during several earthquakes around the world. In the Venezuelan context, the seismic event in Caracas in 1967 showed the significant consequences of designing buildings without considering the SSI effect. Nevertheless, limited research on the [...] Read more.
The Soil–Structure Interaction (SSI) effect has been widely evidenced during several earthquakes around the world. In the Venezuelan context, the seismic event in Caracas in 1967 showed the significant consequences of designing buildings without considering the SSI effect. Nevertheless, limited research on the seismic performance of concrete moment frames (commonly used as structural systems in office and residential buildings in Venezuela and Latin America) considering the SSI effects has been developed, although there have been continuous updates to the Venezuelan Seismic Code. In this research, the influence of the SSI on the seismic performance of RC moment frame buildings designed according to the New Venezuelan Seismic Code was studied. An extensive numerical study of 3D buildings using concrete moment frames supported by mat foundations on sandy and clayey soils was performed. The response spectrum method, non-linear static analysis, and non-linear dynamic analysis were used to assess the seismic response of the archetypes studied. The results show that SSI effects can have a significant impact on the seismic response of RC moment frame buildings, increasing the interstory drift ratio and decreasing the shear forces. As is shown in fragility curves, the probability of collapse increases for cases with flexible bases in comparison to the cases of models with fixed bases. Additionally, in the 24-story archetype, the fixed-base model reached a maximum probability of collapse. Finally, a new proposal for the reduction of the strength-reduction factor (R) must be incorporated into the Venezuelan Seismic Code to improve the safety of the structures. Limitations in the use of RC moment frames must be incorporated for high-rise buildings since, as the present work demonstrates, for high-period structures, the normative provisions are not reached. Full article
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Shear and Punching Capacity Predictions for One-Way Slabs under Concentrated Loads Considering the Transition between Failure Mechanisms
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Alex Micael Dantas de Sousa
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Eva Olivia Leontien Lantsoght
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Mounir Khalil El Debs
Buildings 2023, 13(2), 434; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020434 - 04 Feb 2023
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Reinforced concrete one-way slabs under concentrated loads can develop different shear failure mechanisms: as wide beams in one-way shear, punching shear around the load or a mixed mode between them. Until now, most publications presented recommendations to assess the shear capacity considering only [...] Read more.
Reinforced concrete one-way slabs under concentrated loads can develop different shear failure mechanisms: as wide beams in one-way shear, punching shear around the load or a mixed mode between them. Until now, most publications presented recommendations to assess the shear capacity considering only the one-way shear failure mechanism. This study proposed developing recommendations to assess both the one-way shear and punching shear capacity of such slabs. Different codes of practice were addressed, including the current Eurocode and fib Model Code 2010 expressions. The recommendations were validated against 143 test results from the literature. Following these recommendations, one-way shear and punching capacities predictions achieved enhanced and almost the same level of accuracy. Full article
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Dynamic Characteristic and Parameter Analysis of a Modular Building with Suspended Floors
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Qingguang He
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Shiquan Zhang
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Jiying Shang
Buildings 2023, 13(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010007 - 20 Dec 2022
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Over the past few years, modular buildings have become an important form of environmentally friendly architecture. Prefabricated construction methods have gained a lot of attention because they produce less construction waste and require less labor and water. However, the seismic performance of modular [...] Read more.
Over the past few years, modular buildings have become an important form of environmentally friendly architecture. Prefabricated construction methods have gained a lot of attention because they produce less construction waste and require less labor and water. However, the seismic performance of modular buildings needs to be improved. This paper proposes a prefabricated steel module with a suspended floor, which is based on a multi-tuned mass damped floor system. This paper also derives the form of a motion equation which is unified with the construction process of modular buildings, which can describe the change law of the mass, stiffness, and damping matrix of the structure in the processes of connecting the main structure with the suspended floor slab and of joining different floors. Since the performances of tuned mass damping devices are closely related to the dynamic characteristics of the structure, this paper uses ABAQUS for numerical analysis and mathematical induction (MI) to propose and verify a simplified method for calculating the lateral stiffness of the entire story from a single module’s lateral stiffness. Based on the principle of reducing the stiffness difference in the structure along different directions, a standard scheme of the horizontal extension of the module building is also specified. The results show that the simplified calculation method is reasonable and that the lateral stiffness of the structure increases linearly with the number of modules. Finally, the recommended values for the tuned frequency ratio and tuned damping ratio are given by investigating the dynamic response of the structure under Gaussian white noise excitation. The results show that the recommended tuning frequency ratio and damping ratio ranges in modular buildings are close to those for FIS buildings. Full article
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