NEESR-SG: Performance-Based Design of Squat Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls . Published May 4, 2011 This content is archived. NSF and NEES funded large scale low aspect ratio (height/length) ...

Since 1987, MCEER, formerly the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) and the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research ( NCEER), has produced over 600 ...

Link beams over openings in concrete shear-wall cores have long been the bane of builders because of intense reinforcing-steel congestion, which slows construction.During the first-ever large ...

Concrete Equipment & Products; Shear Wall Success. ... The next challenge was the heavy seismic design of the rebar in the shear walls, which effectively eliminated the use of internal vibrators.

Score another small victory for more-constructible high-rises, especially in seismic zones. Results of recent load tests on a sandwich shear-wall assembly, designed to simplify and speed ...

Other updates include improvements to deep foundation requirements across all seismic design categories and clarified guidelines for cantilever and basement wall shear design. The document also ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction has released Design Guide 38, SpeedCore Systems for Steel Structures.. The document pertains to the nonproprietary concrete-filled composite steel plate ...

In the paper “A graph-based method for quantifying crack patterns on reinforced concrete shear walls,” which was recently published in the journal Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, ...

SHoP Architect's 111 W 57th St is clad with a trio of materials—terra-cotta, bronze, and glass. (Courtesy SHoP Architects) The tower rises to 1,421 feet, joining the trend of supertall ...