Seismic Tests on RC Building Exterior Joints with Wide Beams

Abstract:

Reliable assessment procedures of existing RC buildings are currently available, and have been introduced in the Italian and European codes reporting new rules for seismic analysis. However, further studies are required in order to further improve such procedures and, specifically, obtain more accurate data on the behavior of beam-column joints, whose role on the global behavior of framed RC buildings can be crucial. Until now studies on this issue have been mainly devoted to joint specimens with stiff beams, however frame structures having wide (also called flexible or flat) beams are widely used in the European residential building stock. To this purpose, given the lack of knowledge, an experimental investigation on full scale beam-column joints with wide beam has been planned and is currently in progress. In the present paper the main results of three tests are reported and discussed. The role of different earthquake resistant design levels on joint performances is pointed out.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 787)
• Pages: 771-777
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.787.771
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Angelo Masi, Giuseppe Santarsiero
• Keywords: Beam-Column Joint, Cyclic Tests, Deformation Capacity, Reinforced Concrete (RC), Strength Degradation, Wide Beam

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