Mohammed El-desoqi

The British University in Egypt · Department of Civil Engineering

Within the past few years, the application of shape memory alloy (SMA) in seismic engineering has gained great interest from researchers through various applications such as: reinforcement replacement, dampers, base isolation, and expansion joints. Such interest was due to the shape memory effect and the super elasticity nature of SMA that allows f...

To safeguard against the loss of life and to maintain integrity, reinforced concrete structures are designed and constructed to withstand severe damage, impact and permanent displacement during a strong earthquake. Due to the dissipation of energy after a major earthquake, steel reinforcement undergoes large strains which lead to damage in the plas...

Progressive collapse is defined as either partial or overall failure of the structure due to losing one of the main structural elements. In order to control this chain reaction, it is important to study the main structural elements behavior under column removal. Precast concrete structures become widely used recently due to the quality control assu...

Progressive collapse is defined as the chain failure of the overall structure due to losing one of the main structural elements. Recently, many codes studied the effect of the overall structure behavior due to the loss of one of the main elements and set some limitations for structures’ safety. However, the influence of different beam span lengths...

All current design provisions provide ductility response modification factor based on the evaluation of ductility capacity for different individual structural masonry shear walls. However, most reinforced block buildings are constructed of structural walls with different characteristics; as a result, under seismic loads such walls provide different...