PURR Registry

Thermal gradients in columns subjected to fire

10.4231/R7NP22DD

06/23/2015

Four axially loaded steel columns were tested under non-uniform heating conditions to experimentally evaluate the thermal gradient effects on the fire resistance (temperature and failure time) of steel columns with pinned ends.

ASTM A992 Civil Engineering columns Experimental Tests Fire steel structures structural engineering thermal bowing

SDOF Analysis of Blast Loaded SC Panels in Two-Way Bending

10.4231/H73K-GE42

Amit H. Varma , Joshua Ryan Harmon

10/20/2023

These files contain quick running MATLAB programs which conduct a SDOF analysis of a blast loaded two-way SC panels with fixed or simply-supported edge constraints. The programs can also generate isodamage pressure-impulse diagrams for two-way SC panels.

Blast Civil Engineering Pressure-Impulse Diagram protective design SDOF Analysis Steel plate composite structural engineering

SpeedCore Design Examples

10.4231/ZVN1-4Q26

Amit H. Varma , Ataollah Taghipour Anvari , Morgan Broberg , Soheil Shafaei

03/21/2022

Mathcad sheets for the design examples in AISC Design Guide on SpeedCore Design.

C-PSW/CF Civil Engineering Composite plate shear wall concrete filled Seismic design SpeedCore Wind design

Fire design of SpeedCore walls and CFT columns

10.4231/93AZ-1K22

Amit H. Varma , Ataollah Taghipour Anvari , Hemanth Hariharan , Preshit Wazalwar , Saahastaranshu Bhardwaj

06/25/2020

This tool is developed to analyze the behavior of the SpeedCore walls and CFT columns under fire loading using the fiber-based section analysis.

C-PSW/CF CFT Civil Engineering Composite plate shear wall concrete filled concrete-filled tube columns SpeedCore Structural fire engineering

Post-Earthquake Fire Simulations: Videos of The Analyses

10.4231/02RB-9P04

Amit H. Varma , Muhannad R Alasiri , Rachel Chicchi

07/27/2020

This repository archives the videos of the simulations of the designed structure to different earthquakes and post-earthquake fire scenarios.

3D FEA Behavior Civil Engineering Moment Frame Performance-based Post-Earthquake Fire Steel

Experimental database on connections for composite special moment frames (C-SMFs)

10.4231/R7FX77MM

Amit H. Varma , Zhichao Lai

01/10/2018

This database summarizes 165 experimental test data on beam-to-column connections for composite special moment frames (C-SMFs).

beam-to-column moment connections CFT Civil Engineering Composite special moment frames concrete-filled tube columns

Spreadsheet Programs for Design of SC Walls for Impactive Loading

10.4231/TRXQ-7482

Amit H. Varma , Jungil Seo

03/22/2021

This package contains two spreadsheet programs for designing steel-plate composite (SC) walls to impactive loading. The first program is based on equations developed by Bruhl et al. (2014) and and the second on equations developed by Kim and Varma...

Civil Engineering impactive loading missile impact protective design Steel plate composite