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Two iconic buildings on the Purdue University campus, the Engineering Administration Building and the retired Heating and Power Plant-North, were targeted for demolition in 2012 to make way for the construction of the Wilmeth Active Learning Center.

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Performance of Masonry Structures in Nepal

10.4231/R7RV0KVB

Pranjal Pratap Shah , Prateek Pratap Shah , Praveen Pratap Shah

09/18/2017

A survey of 21 masonry structures was carried out in Kirtipur, Nepal from June 6, 2016 to August 10, 2016.

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Database on Performance of High-Rise Reinforced Concrete Buildings in the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

10.4231/R76T0JSQ

Aishwarya Y. Puranam , Prateek Pratap Shah , Santiago Pujol

09/18/2017

On April 25, 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred in Nepal. It caused more than 8500 casualties and left over 22000 people injured. Another major earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred in Nepal on May 12, 2015.

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A New Perspective on the Tensile Strength of Lap Splices in Reinforced Concrete Members

10.4231/R7GB2275

Brian Richter , Santiago Pujol

09/18/2017

Three series of tests were conducted on specimens with lap lengths varying from 20 to 85 bar diameters. The results indicate that increasing the length of a lap splice beyond 45 bar diameters was an inefficient way to increase the strength of...

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Minimum amount of High-Strength Steel Reinforcement in Reinforced Concrete Elements

10.4231/R7WH2N5R

Aishwarya Y. Puranam , Santiago Pujol

09/15/2017

This dataset consists of tests on one-way slabs and walls to study the minimum amount of high-strength steel reinforcement in concrete elements that were conducted at Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research in Purdue University.

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Performance of Low-rise Reinforced Concrete Buildings in the 2016 Ecuador Earthquake

10.4231/R7ZC8111

Aishwarya Y. Puranam , Chungwook Sim , Enrique Villalobos , Jhon Paul Smith , Lucas A. Laughery , Pedro Rojas , Santiago Pujol

09/18/2017

The earthquake in Ecuador occurred on April 16, 2016 with a moment magnitude of 7.8. It caused more than 660 casualties and over 27,730 people were injured. The survey was performed from July 10 through July 17, 2016 in the cities of Manta,...

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Performance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in the 2016 Taiwan (Meinong) Earthquake

10.4231/R7M32SZ3

Aishwarya Puranam , Alana Lund , Ayhan Irfanoglu , Chao-Hsien Li , Chia-Chen Lin , Chiun-Lin Wu , Fu-Pei Hsiao , Lap-Loi Chung , Li-Hui Cheng , Lucas A. Laughery , Mohammad Jahanshahi , Pedram Hesam , Pu-Wen Weng , Rih-Teng Wu , Santiago Pujol , Shyh-Jiann Hwang , Tsung-Chih Chiou , Tung-Chi Tsai , Wen-Cheng Shen , Weng-Kin Lam , Yi-An Li

09/15/2017

On February 06, 2016, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred in Meinong, Taiwan. After reconnaissance effort conducted on reinforced concrete structures in and around Tainan City and this database contains result of this survey.

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