Three buildings in Montreal and three buildings in Vancouver were designed for different level of "ductility" according to the 1985 National Building Code of Canada and the 1984 Canadian Concrete Code. / Three full scale reinforced concrete specimens representing an exterior beam-column-slab subassemblage of the Montreal structure were tested in order to determine the behaviour of these components. The role of the spandrel beam in limiting the effective slab width and its role in transferring shear to the joint region was investigated. / Analytical procedures were developed in order to predict the responses of main structural components to the combined loading effects of axial load, moment and shear. In addition a hysteretic behavioural model was developed in order to account for strength and stiffness degradation as well as pinching of the hysteretic response. / The analytical procedures were then used to model the responses of the components of these buildings. Non-linear dynamic analyses were carried out on each building for a series of artificially generated accelerograms. The results of the tests as well as the results of the non-linear dynamic analyses enabled an assessment of the performance of different building designs and an assessment of current code requirements.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.75439 |
| Date | January 1987 |
| Creators | Paultre, Patrick |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 000550631, proquestno: AAINL44337, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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