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Tall RC Buildings Environmentally Degradated and Strengthened by Cables Under Multiple Earthquakes: A Numerical Approach

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A numerical investigation is presented for the seismic analysis of tall reinforced concrete (RC) Civil Engineering structures, which have been degradated due to extreme environmental actions and are strengthened by cable elements. The effects of multiple earthquakes on such RC building frames are computed. Damage indices are estimated in order to compare the seismic response of the structures before and after the retrofit by cable element strengthening, and so to elect the optimum strengthening version.

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The last three authors acknowledged the supported by the Bulgarian NSF Grant DCVP-02/1 and FP7-316087 project AComIn.

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Liolios, A., Elenas, A., Liolios, A., Radev, S., Georgiev, K., Georgiev, I. (2015). Tall RC Buildings Environmentally Degradated and Strengthened by Cables Under Multiple Earthquakes: A Numerical Approach. In: Dimov, I., Fidanova, S., Lirkov, I. (eds) Numerical Methods and Applications. NMA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8962. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15585-2_21

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