Book Name: | Design of Modern Highrise Reinforced Concrete Structures |
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Language | English |
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Design of Modern Highrise Reinforced Concrete Structures
Design of Modern Highrise Reinforced Concrete Structures Contents
- Chapter 1. RC Highrise Buildings in Seismic Areas
- Chapter 2. The New RC Mission
- Chapter 3. New RC Supplies
- Chapter 4. New RC Structural Components
- Chapter 5. Finite Component Evaluation
- Chapter 6. Structural Design Rules
- Chapter 7. Earthquake Response Evaluation
- Chapter 9. Feasibility Research and Instance Buildings
Preface to Design of Modern Highrise Reinforced Concrete Structures
Reinforced concrete (RC) as building materials has been used for a variety of constructing constructions all through the world, owing to its benefits reminiscent of versatile structure software, low building price, wonderful sturdiness and simple upkeep.
Nevertheless, its use in seismic international locations and areas on this planet has been restricted to lowrise or mediumrise buildings, contemplating inherent lack of structural security towards earthquakes.
Within the final a number of many years, highrise RC buildings lastly emerged in Japan, beneath the elevated social want of extra superior varieties of RC buildings.
Such a brand new kind of constructions was developed with the super technical efforts for brand spanking new excessive power materials, new design methodology, and new building methodology, backed up by huge quantity of analysis accomplishment.
A 5 12 months nationwide analysis challenge, entitled “Growth of Superior Reinforced Concrete Buildings utilizing Excessive Energy Concrete and Reinforcement”, was carried out in 1988-1993 by the coalition of many analysis organizations in Japan with the Constructing Analysis Institute of the Ministry of Building because the central key group.
The foremost incentive of this nationwide analysis challenge was to additional promote building of highrise RC buildings in addition to different superior varieties of RC constructions, by offering new excessive power materials and new design and building strategies appropriate for such materials.
This nationwide analysis challenge was merely referred to “the New RC” challenge. Now it’s greater than 5 years for the reason that conclusion of the New RC challenge.
It’s fairly clear that the challenge was profitable and efficient find quite a few functions within the sensible design and building of superior RC constructions.
This ebook was written as an effort to disseminate main findings of the challenge in order to assist develop fashionable RC buildings in seismic international locations and areas on this planet. It consists of the next 9 chapters.
In Chapter 1, growth and structural options of highrise RC buildings as much as the onset of the New RC challenge are defined. It was the foremost motivation of the New RC challenge to develop even taller highrise RC buildings in seismic areas.
Strategies of seismic design and dynamic response evaluation, prevalent on the time of New RC challenge initiation, are additionally launched on this chapter.
In Chapter 2, the event purpose of the New RC challenge, growth organizations and the define of anticipated outcomes are talked about.
Chapter 3 is entitled “excessive power supplies”, and describes the event of excessive power concrete and reinforcement and their mechanical traits.
Chapter 4 describes the structural assessments of New RC structural members reminiscent of beams, columns, partitions, and so forth, subjected to simulated seismic loading, and the analysis strategies of structural efficiency of New RC members and assemblies.
Chapter 5 is entitled “finite factor evaluation”, and describes the event of nonlinear finite factor evaluation fashions for New RC members, examples of evaluation that complement the structural testing of Chapter 4, and the rules for nonlinear finite factor evaluation.
Chapter 6 introduces the New RC Structural Design Tips, emphasizing the brand new seismic design methodology for New RC highrise buildings, which principally consists of analysis of seismic habits via time historical past response evaluation and static incremental load (push over) evaluation. Additionally launched on this chapter are a number of design examples.
Chapter 7 intends to present an introductory clarification of dynamic time historical past response evaluation to readers who are usually not fairly acquainted with this type of evaluation, or to those that have expertise in modal evaluation or elastic evaluation solely.
Computational fashions appropriate for RC constructions, normal traits of seismic response of RC constructions, and methodology of numerical evaluation are offered.
In Chapter 8, define of a full-scale building take a look at and the New RC Building Commonplace are offered.
The development normal is the compilation of normal specs for New RC supplies, their manufacturing and processing, and numerous phases of building works.
Within the final Chapter 9, feasibility research on three new varieties of buildings utilizing excessive power supplies are talked about, and highrise buildings using New RC supplies that had been truly designed and constructed, or beneath building, are launched.
Most chapters of this ebook had been authored by individuals who acted as secretaries of the related committees of the New RC challenge. That is the explanation why comparatively few literatures had been referred to in every chapter of this ebook.
The authors want that the publication of this ebook will additional promote the dissemination of the outcomes of the New RC challenge into apply all through the world, and also will encourage additional analysis on the use of excessive power and excessive efficiency supplies to RC constructions.
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