Introduction to “Performance Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Members (Leading-edge and Future Prospective)” published by AIJ in September, 2019
By F. Kusuhara, S. Kono, and K. Kitayama
Concrete Journal, Vol.58, No.8, Aug. 2020
- Synopsis
- This introduces a report on the reinforced concrete members published by the Architectural Institute of Japan in September 2019. The report discusses the concept of damage inherent in reinforced concrete members and time dependence of structural performance. The chapter involves behavior of structural components such as beams, columns, beam-column joints, walls, piles, and damage evaluation in short and long term. Practitioners and researchers may refer to the related sections without reading from the beginning. The readers are encouraged to feel the danger of blindly trusting standards and guidelines and to keep learning the unsolved subjects.
- Keywords:
- Performance evaluation, Restoring force characteristics, Deformation, Bi-directional loading, Time dependence, Numerical model
