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Special Issue "Structural Engineering in Building"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 August 2023 | Viewed by 2674

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Eden Bojórquez

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Facultad de Ingeniería Culiacán, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
Interests: seismic response; reinforced concrete; steel buildings; seismic hazard, seismic risk; artificial intelligence; wind response; energy-based design; fragility assessment; structural reliability; ground motion intensity measures; seismic damage evaluation; energy-dissipation devices; earthquake and wind resistant design

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Structural Engineering in Building is an important topic for the development of safe, resilient, and sustainable infrastructure that can withstand natural hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, storms, floods, landslides, etc. For this reason, in order to mitigate the effects of natural hazards and permanent loads on buildings, structural engineering has constantly evolved. Nowadays, it is possible to find not only traditional masonry structures and tall, reinforced concrete or steel buildings; moreover, the development of new energy dissipation devices and a better understanding and assessment of natural and anthropogenic loads on buildings has become of great interest to the scientific engineering community.

This Special Issue, “Structural Engineering in Building”, aims to present recent advances in the development of structural engineering for safer buildings. Manuscripts related to earthquakes or wind-resistant design of buildings, structural response of buildings under natural hazards, experimental tests, new materials, the estimation of earthquake and wind loads, artificial intelligence methods for structural engineering, seismology, new and modern buildings, resilient design, life cycle cost analysis, seismic and wind records, structural vulnerability, optimum design, and related topics to structural engineering are welcome.

Dr. Eden Bojórquez
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 2000 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

  • structural design of buildings
  • earthquake engineering
  • wind engineering
  • infrastructure under natural hazards
  • experimental tests
  • structural resilience of buildings
  • application of artificial intelligence to structural engineering
  • energy dissipation devices
  • optimal structural design
  • life cycle costs

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Seismic Risk of Weak First-Story RC Structures with Inerter Dampers Subjected to Narrow-Band Seismic Excitations
by
Miguel A. Jaimes
,
Mauro Niño
,
Isaac Franco
,
Salatiel Trejo
,
Francisco A. Godínez
and
Adrián D. García-Soto
Buildings 2023, 13(4), 929; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13040929 - 31 Mar 2023
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This study evaluates the seismic risk of weak first-story reinforced concrete (RC) structures retrofitted with inerter dampers at their ground level when subjected to narrow-band seismic excitations. The main advantages brought about by the ground-level inerters are the reductions in seismic demands (e.g., [...] Read more.
This study evaluates the seismic risk of weak first-story reinforced concrete (RC) structures retrofitted with inerter dampers at their ground level when subjected to narrow-band seismic excitations. The main advantages brought about by the ground-level inerters are the reductions in seismic demands (e.g., drifts, floor accelerations). This study shows that structures with inerters are reliable systems in terms of peak story drifts for large ground motions. For moderate ground-motion intensities, the opposite could occur, mainly for soft soil sites. The reliabilities of structures with inerter dampers at their ground level are in general higher for buildings under seismic intensities associated to limit state of incipient collapse, especially for low-height buildings. This could be reversed for intensities associated to the limit state of damage limitation. The findings of this study could guide practicing engineers to use inerter-based dampers in retrofitting ductile structures consisting of moment-resisting reinforced concrete (RC) frames subjected to narrow-band earthquake excitations in regions such as Mexico City. Full article
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Vector-Valued Intensity Measures Based on Spectral Shape to Predict Seismic Fragility Surfaces in Reinforced Concrete Buildings
by
Noel Zavala
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Edén Bojórquez
,
Manuel Barraza
,
Juan Bojórquez
,
Almendra Villela
,
José Campos
,
José Torres
,
Ricardo Sánchez
and
Joel Carvajal
Buildings 2023, 13(1), 137; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010137 - 05 Jan 2023
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Although some studies have been conducted to compute fragility surfaces of buildings using vector-valued seismic intensity measures (IMs), in all the cases, the first component of the vector usually is the spectral acceleration at first mode of vibration of the structure Sa(T1 [...] Read more.
Although some studies have been conducted to compute fragility surfaces of buildings using vector-valued seismic intensity measures (IMs), in all the cases, the first component of the vector usually is the spectral acceleration at first mode of vibration of the structure Sa(T1). In this study, fragility surfaces of three reinforced concrete buildings (RCB) subjected to narrow-band ground motions obtained from soft soil of Mexico City are computed considering vector-valued IMs based not only on Sa(T1), but also the velocity V(T1), pseudo-velocity Sv(T1), and normalized input energy by the mass EI/m(T1) as the first component. As second component of the vector-valued IMs, the Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA), Peak Ground Velocity (PGV), effective duration (tD), earthquake damage potential (ID) and four Np spectral shape-based parameters obtained through spectral acceleration (NpSa), velocity (NpV), pseudo-velocity (NpSv), and input energy (NpEI) have been analyzed. In order to obtain fragility surfaces, Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR) was applied. It is observed that those vector-valued IMs based on the spectral shape proxies were more efficient to predict the probability of failure of RCB. For this reason, it is important to consider spectral shape vector-valued IMs in order to reduce uncertainty in the structural response of buildings under earthquakes. Thus, the use of two parameters instead of a single intensity measure improves the efficiency. Moreover, the fragility surfaces can be used for the seismic risk evaluation of buildings. Full article
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Experimental Study on Characteristics of Pile-Soil Interaction in Screw Piles
by
Jiakuan Ma
,
Lijuan Luo
,
Tong Mu
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Hongtao Guo
and
Yong Tang
Buildings 2022, 12(12), 2091; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12122091 - 29 Nov 2022
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A screw pile is a special-shaped pile with several advantages, including good bearing capacity, economy, and rapid construction. The calculation of the screw piles’ ultimate bearing capacity in the individual bearing failure state remains controversial. To address the problems of an unclear failure [...] Read more.
A screw pile is a special-shaped pile with several advantages, including good bearing capacity, economy, and rapid construction. The calculation of the screw piles’ ultimate bearing capacity in the individual bearing failure state remains controversial. To address the problems of an unclear failure mechanism and the pile–soil contact relationship in screw piles, we conducted large-scale direct shear tests using a partial amplification method. The variation law for soil stress and the failure pattern of soil around the screw teeth were analyzed. The bearing capacity of the screw shear plate with screw teeth was found to be significantly higher than that of the plane shear plate, while that of the screw pile first increased and then decreased with an increase in the screw pitch. The optimal screw pitch allowed the determination of the maximum bearing capacity. Furthermore, the optimal screw pitch was generally equal to the critical screw pitch, which distinguished the individual bearing failure from the cylindrical shearing failure. A new calculation method for the critical screw pitch and ultimate bearing capacity in the individual bearing failure state was presented, and its rationality was proved using the direct shear test results. The calculation of the critical screw pitch considers the shear strength of soil and the geometric parameters of the screw teeth, making it more widely applicable. These results can provide a theoretical basis for the subsequent design of screw piles. Full article
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