Reinforced concrete columns play a very important role in structural performance. As such, it is essential to apply a suitable analytical tool to estimate their structural behaviour considering all failure mechanisms such as axial, shear, and flexural failures. This book highlights the development of a fiber beam-column element accounting for shear effects and the effect of tension stiffening through reinforcement-to-concrete bond, along with the employment of suitable constitutive material laws.
Planar Trusses
This book contains 73 schemes of trusses, with solutions for many not widely published. It identifies trusses with hidden dangerous properties and provides compact formulas for engineers and theorists to supplement numerical calculations, especially for complex structures.