Benjamin Richard

TL;DR: In this article, a series of shaking table tests on a ¼-scale 3-story reinforced concrete model characterized by a strong asymmetry has been carried out in July 2013.

TL;DR: In this article, an evolving equivalent viscous damping ratio for a simply supported reinforced concrete beam is estimated for a reinforced concrete structure in the scope of a moderate seismicity context for which steel yielding is not expected.

TL;DR: In this paper, path-following methods are discussed within the framework of the Embedded Finite Element Method (E-FEM), thanks to the enhanced kinematic description provided by the E-FEMS, and it is possible to formulate constraint equations where the prescribed quantities are directly related to the dissipative process occurring at the strong discontinuity level.

TL;DR: A new class of anisotropic damage models is proposed characterized by its capabilities to describe non linear progressive stiffness recovery with the possibility to introduce permanent strains.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the issue of fine-cracking representation and the formulation of an enhanced anisotropic model to capture the failure of reinforced concrete specimens using a damage-based constitutive law accounting for particular crack families orientation.