Local fracture-induced phenomena in steel moment frames.
Brittle fractures were observed at the welded beam-to-column connections of a number of steel moment frame buildings following the M6.7 1994 Northridge earthquake. Such fractures cause a rapid loss of connection strength and stiffness, as well as a sudden release of the strain energy stored by the c...
Publicado no: | Earthquake engineering & structural dynamics. 38, 2 (2009). |
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