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Multi Storied structures are used worldwide and have outstanding advantages in the use of composite materials in structural application. This study heads to an experimental study to reproduce the behavior on a composite joint configuration. Due to the lack of knowledge, during the last few years a lot of studies are based on the semi-rigid composite joints that can provide useful data about the behavior and the resistance of these connections. A number of two tests were performed to obtain a better development of ...

The primary aim of earthquake resistant design is to prevent building collapse during the seismic event, but severe earthquakes have a low probability of occurrence during the life time of the structure, therefore in contrast to traditional structural design in earthquake design, structures are permitted to work in post-elastic domain under seismic load. It would require a large lateral stiffness of the structure and an expensive resisting system to design the building to have an elastic response. Because of these...