the fi nancial support for this study from the Architecture and Building Research Institute,Chinese Taipei,under Grant No.099301070000G1005
An original reinforced concrete(RC) column and four strengthened specimens, two with RC jackets and two with wing walls, were tested in this study. The original column specimen was designed to comply with older(pre-19...
Over the past decade, seismically induced damage to bridges has been widely reported following major earthquakes such as the 1994 Northridge, 1995 Kobe and 1999 Chi-Chi events. Since these earthquakes, restrainers and...
MCEER/FHWA under Contract No.DTFH 61-98-C-00094;Caltrans under Contract No.59A0304
The Northridge earthquake inflicted various levels of damage upon a large number of Caltrans' bridges not retrofitted by column jacketing.In this respect,this study represents results of fragility curve development fo...