It is worth to mention that no strengthening was applied at the wall edges as in field the wall edges are unexposed as they are mostly connected to columns or walls.
Post-tensioned (PT) steel frames, in which beams are connected to columns through high-strength PT strands, have been successfully developed in the past decade as a novel earthquake-resistant structural system.
This indicated that after a load-bearing column is removed, the beams that were connected to this column must transfer the load previously borne by the column and bridge over the damaged area.
In this new proposed connection, two beams pass next to the column faces without interruption and are connected to the column flanges by vertical plates.
In the suggested system, a gap is left around the column to enable the slab to be connected to the column through isolated structural steel members which are designed to yield in shear before punching failure occurs.
Therefore, the pin connected to the column of the button pushed will read a low value.
Two linear elastic springs connected to the column ends simulate the axial restraints from the adjoining unheated structure.
Similarly, /a 0<3> is connected to the column of weight X8 in the lower M+ array.
Among the 4-bit digitized signals of a 0<0 3>, a 0<3> is connected to the column with the weight as large as 8 in the upper M+ array.
A high-pressure pump L-71000, HiTokyo, Japan, Japan) with interface D-70000) was connected to a column (Mightysil RP-18, GP 250 × 4.6 mm) and an ultraviolet detector (Hitachi L-7420).
Semi-supported steel shear walls (SSSW), whose steel plate is connected to secondary columns rather than main columns of the frame, have been considered as an alternative steel shear walls to the traditional type.
