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Sashi K. Kunnath
Editor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of California at Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616. E-mail: skkunnath@ ucdavis.edu
Papers selected for this issue of the Journal come from a variety of technical areas: analysis and computation, concrete, metal and wood structures, seismic and wind effects, and special design issues. Also included are two discussions on a previously published paper dealing with buckling behavior of reinforcing bars.
Reinforced Concrete Columns. The analysis indicates that the end moment ratios of approximate moment magnier expressions and slenderness limits should be expressed in terms of swaymodied end moments. The author questions the rationale of providing separate slenderness limits for columns of nonsway and sway frames in the American Concrete Institute ACI building code requirements. Several inconsistencies in the ACI limits are highlighted with respect to their differences and the different basis on which they were derived. A new, more comprehensive limit is proposed to replace the two separate ACI expressions. A mix design method is proposed by Pereira et al. in Steel Fiber-Reinforced Self-Compacting Concrete: Experimental Research and Numerical Simulation to develop cost-effective and high-performance steel ber-reinforced self-compacting concrete SFRSCC. The material properties, as well as the potential of SFRSCC as a structural material, are assessed through punching and exural tests on panel prototypes. To assess the contribution of steel bers in punching resistance, a material nonlinear analysis is carried out and the fracture parameters of the constitutive model are obtained from inverse analysis, using force-deection relationships obtained from beam bending tests.
Metal Structures
Findings from an Experimental Study of Complex High-Strength Cold-Formed Cross-Shaped Steel Section are reported by Yap and Hancock. The shape is chosen so that it has a local buckling mode, two distinct distortional buckling modes, and a exuraltorsional mode. The rst distortional buckling mode has a shorter buckle half-wavelength than the other distortional mode. When compared with the existing methods, the test results indicate that at intermediate and longer specimen lengths, the interaction of local and distortional buckling modes have a signicant effect on the strength of the section. Results from testing nine full-scale W14 column specimens representing a practical range of ange and web width-tothickness ratios is presented by Newell and Uang in Cyclic Behavior of Steel Wide-Flange Columns Subjected to Large Drift. The specimens were subjected to different levels of axial force demand 35, 55, and 75% of nominal axial yield strength with lateral loading producing up to 10% story drift. No global buckling was observed in any of the test specimens. Flange local buckling was the dominant buckling mode. Specimens achieved interstory drift capacities of 0.07 to 0.09 rad due to the delay in ange local buckling resulting from the stabilizing effect provided by the stocky column web of the W14 section specimens. These ndings indicate that the ASCE 41-predicted plastic rotation capacities are very conservative. The ASCE 41 criteria do not specify plastic rotation capacity at axial load ratios greater than 0.5; however, the tested specimens exhibited signicant plastic rotation capacities of approximately 15 to 25 times the member yield rotation.
Concrete Structures
The effect of global second-order effects are discussed by Hellesland in Mechanics and Slenderness Limits of Sway-Restricted
Wood Structures
Wood frame structures typically rely on wood shear walls to resist seismic loads. The walls are known to exhibit highly nonlinear
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behavior at relatively low levels of seismic excitation, resulting in structural and nonstructural damage. Shape memory alloys SMAs have never been applied for use in seismic protection of wood shear walls. Findings from Shake Table Testing of a Superelastic Shape Memory Alloy Response Modication Device in a Wood Shearwall are reported by van de Lindt and Potts. The results from the testing were compared with those for a regular wood shear wall subjected to the same suite of ground motions. The superelastic SMA-based device is shown to signicantly reduce wall displacements that in turn effectively eliminate damage to the wall. Performance of Light-Frame Wood Residential Construction Subjected to Earthquakes in Regions of Moderate Seismicity is examined by Ellingwood et al. using stochastic methods to model the uncertainties in ground motion intensity and structural response. Fragility curves dening damage state probabilities as a function of ground motion intensity are developed for typical lateral force-resisting shear wall systems subjected to increasing levels of ground motion. A comparison of these fragilities with those embedded in HAZUS provides additional perspective on the damage potential for residential construction in regions of low-tomoderate seismicity.
fail due to resistance factors in materials, conservative design procedures that do not always analyze all load capacities, and lack of a precise denition of failure. In Low-Rise Steel Structures under Directional Winds: Mean Recurrence Interval of Failure, Duthinh et al. propose a working denition of failure for steel structures using nonlinear FE analysis. A methodology is proposed for estimating the MRI of failure under wind loads that accounts in a detailed and rigorous manner for nonlinear structural behavior and for the directionality of the wind speeds and the aerodynamic effects.
Seismic Effects
Dependence of Damping Correction Factors for Response Spectra on Duration and Numbers of Cycles is investigated by Stafford et al. Generic equations are derived that may be used to estimate the spectral response over a wide range of damping ratios as a function of signicant duration, both D5 75% and D5 95%, and number of cycles. Although the dependence upon these predictor variables is clear, the derived relationships cannot be directly incorporated into design codes since strong ground motion duration and number of equivalent cycles are generally not specied as part of seismic design actions. Seismic Response of Tall Guyed Masts to Asynchronous Multiple-Support and Vertical Ground Motions is investigated by Faridafshin and McClure. Three existing masts with varying heights were studied numerically under the effects of three earthquake records with all three translational ground motion components. The earthquake excitation was prescribed as a displacement-controlled motion, providing the opportunity to consider the asynchronous shaking of the cable ground anchors and mast base. This effect was studied by varying the shear-wave velocity of the traveling wave corresponding to different degrees of soil stiffness and observing the general trends of selected response indicators. More severe structural response was obtained for softer soil conditions, and the tallest 607 m mast showed sensitivity even for relatively stiff soils. Structural damping and the vertical component of ground motion were also found to signicantly affect the response.
Wind Effects
ASCE 705 states that it is not likely that the 500-year event is the actual speed at which engineered structures are expected to
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