Showing papers by "Brian Broderick published in 2002"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured hourly roadside hydrocarbon concentrations over a six-week period at a heavily trafficked junction in Dublin city centre and compared them with other studies that have compared fuel content and exhaust composition.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental investigation of the seismic behavior of flush end-plate joints is presented, where eight beam-to-column sub-assemblage specimens are tested under monotonic and cyclic loading conditions.
40 citations
01 May 2002
TL;DR: The rotational stiffness of flush end-plate connections ensures that moment-resisting frames in which they are employed will possess some lateral resistance even in the absence of bracing members.
Abstract: The rotational stiffness of flush end-plate connections ensures that moment-resisting frames in which they are employed will possess some lateral resistance even in the absence of bracing members – a property which is widely exploited in the wind-moment method of design. This paper describes an investigation of whether this approach can be extended to include earthquake resistant design. The results from an experimental study of the cyclic response of flush end-plate joints is presented. The responses of eight different beam-to-column sub-assemblages subjected to monotonic or cyclic loading are compared in terms of rotational stiffness, failure mode, ultimate moment resistance and rotation ductility capacity. A response prediction model has been developed, and the experimental and predicted results are compared. Moment–rotation curves obtained from this model are employed in design case studies in which the earthquake resistance of steel moment frames is evaluated. These concentrate on identifying the max...
6 citations