Abstract: Structures and lifelines designed for typical loading are often badly damaged or can collapse during earthquakes. The observations from recent earthquakes show that many RC structures have failed in the brittle behaviour of beam-column connections due to the deficiency of seismic details in the joint regions. Joint shear failures have been observed recently in many existing RC structures subjected to severe earthquake loadings. In this study, RC beam column specimen was casted and tested for excitation of cyclic loading. Attempts are made to study the performance of the test specimen by studying loop hysteresis, maximum push and pull load and load at the propagation of first crack.
Keywords: Non-linear analysis; Crack propagation, cyclic loading
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