by Applied Element Method | Jun 16, 2008 | Conferences
As an approach to the problem of seismic vulnerability evaluation of existing buildings through the predicted vulnerability method, analytical models can be applied to define the capacity curves of typical buildings which represent different building classes. These...
by Applied Element Method | Apr 16, 2008 | Other Publications
Within the past 40 years, abnormal loadings resulting from natural hazards, design flaws, construction errors, and man-made threats have induced progressive collapse in structures all over the world. As progressive collapse behavior has become more prominent, it has...
by Applied Element Method | Apr 1, 2008 | Other Publications, Thesis
DThe collapse of non-engineered masonry is one of the greatest causes of death in major earthquake events around the world, yet by definition non-engineered structures remain largely outside of the scope of modern engineering research. For this reason, the majority of...
by Applied Element Method | Mar 30, 2008 | Bulletins
Masonry, through its long history, is widespread used around the world and still remains a main building material in many places especially developing countries. However a poorly designed masonry is known as brittle and susceptible to the earthquake. To improve their seismic capacity, polypropylene band retrofitting technique method was purposed base on economic point of view and local availability of material and skilled labor. In this study, we proposed 3-D Applied Element Method as analysis tools to help understanding the polypropylene band retrofitted masonry behavior which will be benefit in the future design process. Unlike the previous version, 3-D Applied Element Method elements can be any rectangular prism which helps reducing the number of elements.
by Applied Element Method | Mar 30, 2008 | Other Publications, Thesis
Within the past 40 years, abnormal loadings resulting from natural hazards, design flaws, construction errors, and man-made threats have induced progressive collapse in structures all over the world. As progressive collapse behavior has become more prominent, it has...
by Applied Element Method | Aug 30, 2007 | Conferences
Bridges are critical to the transportation system especially at the time of crises. They are essential for rescue missions, evacuations, and rapid distribution of aid and medical supplies. Bridges are highly visible and accessible structures which make them...
by Applied Element Method | Mar 30, 2007 | Bulletins
Understanding masonry wall behavior under lateral cyclic loads is important as it helps both evaluating the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings and developing proper retrofitting measures. In this study, the simulation of brick masonry wall behavior was...
by Applied Element Method | Apr 19, 2006 | Other Publications
Progressive collapse simulation is the latest challenge facing today’s engineers wishing to assess the integrity of structures and to develop any necessary progressive collapse mitigation strategies. To this end, an ideal progressive collapse numerical simulation...
by Applied Element Method | Apr 1, 2006 | Conferences
Many trials have been made to numerically simulate the Alfred P. Murrah Building bombing event using Finite Element Method. These trials were based on removal of one of the main supporting columns to investigate the generated internal forces and the possible...
by Applied Element Method | Mar 30, 2006 | Bulletins
DVoronoi Applied Element Method (VAEM) has been developed based on previous Appleid Element Method (AEM). Comparing to the original AEM, the advantage of VAEM can be described as the followings: the boundary of VAEM domain can fit to any type of domain easily,...
