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  Strength & Ductility Consideration in Seismic Design
Posted by: budis - 12-19-2010, 06:33 AM - Forum: Archive - Replies (1)

Title : "Strength & Ductility Consideration in Seismic Design"
Author : J.D. Osteraas & H Krawinkler
Report : Report No 90 The John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University
Publisher : The John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University
Year : 1991
Language : English

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  Report - Seismic Demand for SDOF & MDOF System
Posted by: budis - 12-19-2010, 06:31 AM - Forum: Archive - Replies (1)

Title : "Seismic Demand for SDOF & MDOF Systems"
Author : A.A. Nassar & H. Krawinkler
Report : Report No 95 The John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University
Publisher : The John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Stanford University
Year : 1991
Language : English

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  STP 740 Laboratory Shear Strength of Soil
Posted by: tynhanh - 12-19-2010, 04:00 AM - Forum: Archive - Replies (1)

STP 740 Laboratory Shear Strength of Soil
Editors: Yong RN, Townsend FC
Pages: 720
Published: 1981
ISBN: 0-8031-0789-7
ISBN13: 978-0-8031-0789-2

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  Commentary and worked examples to EN 1993-1-10
Posted by: datagap - 12-19-2010, 02:47 AM - Forum: Steel - Replies (1)


Commentary and worked examples to EN 1993-1-10 “Material toughness and through thickness properties“ and other toughness oriented rules in EN 1993

Author: G. Sedlacek, M. Feldmann, B. Kühn, D. Tschickardt, S. Höhler, C. Müller, W. Hensen, N. Stranghöner, W. Dahl, P. Langenberg, S. Münstermann, J. Brozetti, J. Raoul, R. Pope, F. Bijlaard | Size: 25.9 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: European Communities | Year: 2008 | pages: 262

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This joint ECCS-JRC report is part of a series of background-documents in support to the implementation of Eurocode 3. It provides background information on the specific issue of design rules affected by the toughness of steel.

In its various parts, EN 1993 – Eurocode 3 currently addresses steel properties essentially with regard to strength. The toughness properties are also dealt with in Part 1-10 and Part 1-12.

The interrelation between toughness properties and the safety of steel structures is not commonly known, and therefore EN 1993-1-10 does not explicitly address this issue. The background material to EN 1993-1-10 presented in this report provides the necessary explanations on the underlying principles and their application rules. It also opens the door to the application of these principles to situations not yet fully covered by EN 1993.

Due to its rather innovative character, some of the contents of this joint ECCS-JRC still needs to be complemented through additional research likely to be carried out in the context of the further development of Eurocode 3.

The European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS) has initiated the development of this commentary in the frame of the cooperation between the Commission (JRC) and the ECCS for works on the further evolution of the Eurocodes. It is therefore published as a Joint Commission (JRC)-ECCS-report.

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  Seismic Retrofit of RC Frame Buildings with Masonry Infill Walls
Posted by: datagap - 12-19-2010, 12:49 AM - Forum: Scientific journals and Research papers - No Replies

Seismic Retrofit of RC Frame Buildings with Masonry Infill Walls: Literature Review and Preliminary Case Study

Author: Mike Griffith | Size: 0.87 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: European Communities | Year: 2008 | pages: 83

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate possible seismic retrofit options for use in the seismic upgrade of a рeinforced concrete frame building with brick masonry infill walls. The building is typical of a Mediterranean European country (e.g., Greece, Italy, Portugal) and while designed according to the state-of-the-art over 40 years ago, it does not meet the present day seismic design requirements and contains a number of now “well-recognised” seismic design deficiencies and problems such as:
• inadequate beam-column joint details (discontinuous, inadequately anchored bottom beam steel and inadequate shear reinforcement);
• inadequate confinement of columns (stirrups with 90° bends and spacing of 10 bd to 12.5 bd);
• inadequate column splice joint details;
• weak-column strong-beam frame collapse mechanism; and
• brick masonry infill wall interaction with frame response.

The overall aim of this project was to identify the optimal combination of retrofit options that would enable the building to meet the present-day “life-safety” performance criteria for buildings subject to a design magnitude earthquake. As part of this study, a detailed review of the broader literature in the area of seismic rehabilitation was undertaken in conjunction with a preliminary assessment of the building’s seismic capacity. Based on these findings, a number of retrofit schemes will be investigated analytically in order to identify the most suitable course of action.

In the present paper, a summary of that literature review is given, followed by the results of the preliminary assessment of the seismic resistance of the building, and a description of several seismic retrofit scheme options for further detailed study. The effectiveness of the retrofit scheme eventually selected from among the options discussed here will be tested using full-scale pseudo-dynamic tests at the ELSA laboratory of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. The results of these detailed analyses and tests will be reported in future publications.

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  Cold Formed Steel in Residential Construction.ppt
Posted by: Kurucz - 12-18-2010, 07:09 PM - Forum: Steel - No Replies

Cold Formed Steel in Residential Construction (ppt, read only)

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Cold Formed Steel in Residential Construction (ppt, read only)
Prof. R. Schuster
Director
Canadian Cold Formed Steel Research Group
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

-Steel, the Material
-Making of Steel
-The Environment
-Manufacturing of Formed Products
-Shapes and Profiles
-Structural Design Standards and Specifications
-Codes Approving Specifications
-Trade and Other Associations

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  House Rating Schemes: From Energy to Comfort Base
Posted by: ir_71 - 12-18-2010, 04:25 PM - Forum: General Books - No Replies

House Rating Schemes: From Energy to Comfort Base

Author: Maria Kordjamshidi | Size: 2.7 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: Springer | Year: 2010 | pages: 300 | ISBN: 3642157890

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"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be evaluated with reference to its thermal performance in both free running and conditioned operation modes. The book deals with various approaches and methods for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort. It also guides readers through a computer simulation program for developing a rating system that evaluates and ranks building energy efficiency.

Content Level » Research

Keywords » Buildings - Energy efficiency - Rating - Thermal comfort - Thermal performance

Related subjects » Architecture - Energy Technology - Engineering - Sustainable Development

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Why House Energy Ratings Accomplished . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 The Position of Passive Architecture in Current HERS . . . . . . . 3
1.3 A Conflict in HERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4 Book Outline – How to Read the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 House Rating Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1 House Energy Rating Schemes (HERS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1.1 TheUnitedStates ofAmerica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.2 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.3 Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.1.4 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2 Rating Methodologies for Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2.1 Building Rating Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.3 Energy as theMainParameter forRatingBuildings . . . . . . . . 18
2.4 Issues Related to Building Energy Rating Schemes . . . . . . . . 19
2.4.1 Rating and Achievement of Sustainability . . . . . . . . . 19
2.4.2 Rating Free Running Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.4.3 Rating Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.4.4 Occupancy Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.4.5 Accuracy of HERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.5 Need for a New Index for Assessing Building
EnergyEfficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3 Thermal Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.1 ThermalComfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.1.1 Definition of Thermal Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.1.2 Human Comfort and Variables Affecting
ThermalComfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.1.3 Thermal Comfort Models and Standards . . . . . . . . . . 34
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vi Contents
3.1.4 Applicability of the Thermal Comfort Index
for Naturally Ventilated Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3.1.5 Adaptive Thermal Comfort Models for Naturally
Ventilated/Free Running Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.1.6 Acceptable Thermal Conditions in Free Running
Buildings Based on the ASHRAE Standard . . . . . . . . 41
3.1.7 Applicability of the Adaptive Comfort Model
for Free Running Residential Buildings . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.2 Evaluation of a Residential Building’s Thermal
Performance on the Basis of Thermal Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3.2.1 Computing Degree Hours for Free Running
Houses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
3.3 Indicators to Measure the Thermal Performance of Houses
forRatingPurposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.3.1 Conditioned Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.3.2 Free Running Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.3.3 Howan IndicatorPoints toBuildingEfficiency . . . . . . 46
3.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4 Modelling Efficient Building Design: Efficiency for Low
Energy or No Energy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.1 Building Performance Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.1.1 BuildingSimulationPrograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.1.2 Criteria for Modeling the Thermal Performance
of Buildings in Two Different Operation Modes . . . . . . 56
4.1.3 Effective Parameters for Improving Buildings
Thermal Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
4.2 Parametric Sensitivity Analysis of Thermal Performances
ofBuildings:AComparativeAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.2.1 What Is Sensitivity Analysis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.2.2 Thermal Performances of Dwellings
in the Sydney Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.2.3 Summary of Thermal Performance Analysis . . . . . . . . 100
4.3 Relationship Between Thermal Performance of Buildings
ontheBasisofEnergy andThermalComfort . . . . . . . . . . . 102
4.3.1 CorrelationCoefficient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
4.3.2 MultivariateRegressionAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
4.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5 Assembling a House Energy Ratings (HER) and House Free
Running Ratings (HFR) Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.1 Rating Building Thermal Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.1.1 How Should Building Thermal Performance Bands
Be Defined for Rating? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Contents vii
5.2 TheCombination ofTwoRatingSystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
5.3 HowtheNewCombinedSystemEvaluatesEfficiency . . . . . . . 125
5.4 Reliability of the New Rating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
5.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
6 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
6.1 The Effect of House Envelope Parameters on the Seasonal
Performance of Houses in Different Operation Modes . . . . . . . 131
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

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  Sketch Plan Build: World Class Architects Show How It's Done
Posted by: brass - 12-18-2010, 04:02 PM - Forum: General Books - Replies (1)

Sketch Plan Build: World Class Architects Show How It's Done

Author: Bahamon, Alejandro | Size: 76,7 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: Harper Design International Publishing |
Year: 2005 | pages: 306 | ISBN: 0060749717

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Focusing on the design process of today's most noteworthy architects, Sketch Plan Build explores the reasoning, resources, and influences behind the projects of today's most recognized architects. This book is a primary tool for understanding the different traits and nuances each architect uses to express their own ideas. With international projects from world renowned architects such as Tadao Ando, Coop Himmellau, and Renzo Piano, and with detailed sketches, drawings, and photographs for each project, Sketch Plan Build is sure to provide a comprehensive compendium for all those interested in how an inspired idea makes the journey from projection to construction.

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  Indian Standard codes (SP sodes)
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