Abstract: Due to the repetitive progressive collapse events, it became necessity to form theories of designs against those cases of loadings. Prestressed reinforced concrete elements become widely used in construction field due to various properties that contribute to...
Reinforced Concrete
Progressive Collapse Assessment of Precast Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Applied Element Method
Abstract: Progressive collapse is defined as either partial or overall failure of the structure due to losing one of the main structural elements. In order to control this chain reaction, it is important to study the main structural elements behavior under column...
Specifying Safe Demolition
Every day, old structures are demolished to make room for new and improved buildings, bridges, and other structures. More often than we would like, during the course of these demolitions, things do not go as planned and loss or damage to property can occur. The...
Blast Analysis and Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs with FRP Retrofit using ELS
Ahmed Khalil, P.E, Ph.D from ASI and Tarek Kewaisy, P.E., Ph.D. from Louis Berger will be co-presenting a paper titled “Advanced Modeling of Blast Response of Reinforced Concrete Slabs with and without FRP Retrofit” on March 26 2018 at ACI Concrete...
Visit ASI at Structures Congress 2017!!
Come visit us at this year's Structures Congress in Denver, Colorado. We have staff presenting on topics using our Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS) in the following sessions: Ship Impact & Nonlinear Dynamic Collapse Analysis of a Single Well Observation...
Design and Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Columns in Uplift due to Internal Building Detonations
urrent research with respect to the protection of civilian infrastructure against complex blast loading conditions is primarily focused towards the effect of external explosive sources. As a consequence, the general literature on internal building detonations and specifically in the context of protective design and assessment of structures against these loading conditions is incomplete. Existing guidelines […]
Reduce Your Assumptions – Improve Your Results
Efficient – Cost Effective – Performance Based Design xtreme Loading® for Structures Software (ELS) is the ideal nonlinear dynamic structural analysis tool to study the behavior of structures due to seismic,...
Improving the Structural Robustness of Multistory Steel-Frame Buildings
This paper investigates the used of the alternate path method in studying the design of structures to resist progressive collapse using Extreme Loading® for Structures (ELS) and its Applied Element Method (AEM) based solver. Abstract: [dropcap style="font-size: 60px;...
Structural Identification Using the Applied Element Method: Advantages and Case Study Application
tructural identification has continued to develop into a versatile tool for developing high fidelity analytical models of large civil structures that accurately reflect the measured in-service response. The...