Both are considered likely candidates for mayor in four years, and with Mr. Bloomberg's weakened standing, colleagues predicted that both Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Liu would forcefully resist elements of the administration's third-term agenda.
The RWMF is essentially subjected to two groups of external moments, opposed by as many internal global resisting moments as there are groups of resisting elements.
This paper examines the influence of bi-directional seismic excitations on the inelastic behaviour of in-plan irregular systems having one symmetry axis, schematised as one-storey models with resisting elements arranged along two orthogonal directions.
For this purpose, an efficient FRP retrofit scheme has been developed previously, in which hollow clay brick infill walls can be utilized as lateral load resisting elements after retrofitting.
Shear wall panels, as the one of the primary lateral load resisting elements, have been extensively used in lightweight framing of low- and mid-rise residential construction, particularly in seismic applications.
The study of the in-plane shear behaviour of such walls is important for their application as lateral load resisting elements such as: shear or core walls in a steel framed building.
In order to resist the lateral load, shear walls are provided in theframed structures as a lateral load resisting element (Rahimian 2011 Kim and Lee 2008, Kuang and Ho 2008).
This research confirmed the suitability of proposed profiled double skin composite wall (DSCW) to be used as impact shear resisting element in framed buildings.
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The coupled lateral-torsional vibration in R/C asymmetric structures under seismic loading leads to larger lateral deformation in the load-resisting elements located at one edge, compared to the other resisting elements.
