Publications by João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

Instability of Thin Concrete Walls with a Single Layer of Reinforcement under Cyclic Loading: Numerical Simulation and Improved Equivalent Boundary Element Model for Assessment

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Angelica Rosso, Lisandro Arturo Jimenez Roa

Thin reinforced concrete walls may fail due to out-of-plane instability when subjected to seismic loading. While previous numerical studies on wall instability have focused on the behaviour of members with two layers of vertical reinforcement, this work ad ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

Seismic performance of slender RC U-shaped walls with a single-layer of reinforcement

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Ryan Hoult

Reinforced concrete walls are commonly used to resist the lateral loading induced by wind and earthquake actions. While most walls include two vertical reinforcement layers, some regions of the world construct slender, non-rectangular concrete walls with a ...

2020

Überprüfung bezüglich Erdbeben von Holzbalkendecken in Bestandesbauten

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

Viele bestehende Mauerwerksgebäude in der Schweiz weisen Holzbalkendecken als Deckenkonstruktion auf. Dies triff vor allem für Gebäude zu, die bis in die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhundert erbaut wurden. Holzbalkendecken sind in ihrer Ebene sehr flexibel und ...

2020

Shake Table Blind Prediction Tests: Contributions for Improved Fiber-based Frame Modelling

João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

Distributed plasticity Euler-Bernoulli fiber beams are regularly used by researchers and practitioners to simulate the nonlinear seismic response of reinforced concrete framed structures. This study presents a sensitivity analysis, combining newly proposed ...

2020

Characterization of mortar-timber and timber-timber cyclic friction in timber floor connections of masonry buildings

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

The seismic performance of buildings depends critically on the stiffness and strength of storey diaphragms. Whilst for modern reinforced concrete or steel structures the connection between floors and lateral resisting members is often assumed as monolithic ...

SPRINGER2020

Extended Tension Chord Model for Boundary Elements of RC Walls Accounting for Anchorage Slip and Lap Splices Presence

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Danilo Tarquini

This paper presents a mechanical model for the simulation of reinforced concrete (RC) wall boundary elements with lap splices, which builds on the tension chord model. The model is composed of an assembly of components, each one accounting for a different ...

2020

Experimental investigation on the deformation capacity of lap splices under cyclic loading

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Danilo Tarquini

Correct detailing and positioning of lap splices is essential in order to prevent premature failure of reinforced concrete structural members. Especially before the introduction of capacity design guidelines, lap splices were often placed in member regions ...

2019

Analysis of deposited layers with deuterium and impurity elements on samples from the divertor of JET with ITER-like wall

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Magalie Diane Bassan, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Tritium distributions on W-coated divertor tiles used in the third JET ITER-like wall campaign

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Magalie Diane Bassan, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Population modelling of the He II energy levels in tokamak plasmas: I. Collisional excitation model

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Magalie Diane Bassan, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Uniaxial Cyclic Tests on Reinforced Concrete Members with Lap Splices

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Danilo Tarquini

This data paper presents the quasi-static uniaxial cyclic tests of 24 reinforced concrete members, of which 22 feature lap splices and 2 are reference units with continuous reinforcement. The objective of the experimental program is to investigate the infl ...

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INST2019

Response of thin lightly-reinforced concrete walls under cyclic loading

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

During the last two decades, thin concrete walls have been frequently used to brace mid- to high-rise buildings in some Latin American countries. This structural system differs significantly in terms of wall geometry and reinforcement layout from tradition ...

2018

Out-of-plane instability of thin single-layered members: recent advancements in the characterization of the mechanism

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Angelica Rosso

2018

Experimental investigation on the behaviour of lap splices under uniaxial cyclic loading

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Danilo Tarquini

Splicing of longitudinal reinforcement in the plastic hinge region of reinforced concrete (RC) members was common practice in buildings and bridges before the introduction of capacity design principles. Experimental and field observations showed that the p ...

2018

Cyclic tensile-compressive tests on thin concrete boundary elements with a single layer of reinforcement prone to out-of-plane instability

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Angelica Rosso, Lisandro Arturo Jimenez Roa

The growing need for residential housing in Latin American countries has led to the construction of reinforced concrete buildings with wall thicknesses as low as 8–10 cm. Such walls have typically only a single layer of vertical rebars and are therefore pa ...

2018

Effect of damping models on the simulation of seismic axial forces in a reinforced concrete bridge pier

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Manuel Jordan

Post-reconnaissance findings after recent earthquakes have shown that the effect of the vertical acceleration component of the ground motion can be more damaging than typically considered thus far, particularly in near-field regions where the ratio of vert ...

2018

14 MeV calibration of JET neutron detectors-phase 1: calibration and characterization of the neutron source

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Magalie Diane Bassan, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A fibre-based frame element with explicit consideration of bond-slip effects

João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

Reinforced concrete (RC) frames subjected to seismic loading often depict localized member-end deformations due to strain penetration effects between adjacent members, such as beam-column and column-footing joints. Past experimental programs indicate that ...

2017

Axially Equilibrated Displacement-based Beam Element: Implementation in OpenSees and Application to Dynamic Analysis of Structures

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Danilo Tarquini

Experimental tests on the inelastic behavior of RC bridge piers have shown that, due to tension shift effects, the curvature profile above the base section of the structural member differs from the one that would develop according to a force-based or a cla ...

2017

Ensayos cuasi-estáticos cíclicos de muros delgados de concreto reforzado en edificios colombianos

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

The use of thin reinforced concrete walls (thickness of 8 to 12 cm) in Latin America has become a popular building construction practice in the last two decades. Several existing studies indicate that the inelastic deformation capacity could be limited and ...

2017