U.S.-Singapore Cooperative Research: Experimental and Ana-  lytical Studies of Nonlinear Structural Systems Under Earth-quake Loads
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This proposal requests funds to permit Dr. Mihran S. Agbabian,                  Dr. Sami F. Masri, and Dr. James C. Anderson, Department of Civil               Engineering, University of Southern California, to pursue with                  Dr. Seng-Lip Lee, Dr. Somsak Swaddiwudhipong, Dr. Ser-Tong Quek,                Dr. Chi Young Liaw, and Dr. Thambirajah Balendra, Department of                 Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, for a period               of 24 months, a program of cooperative experimental and analytical              research on nonlinear structural systems under earthquake loads.                The following three research topics will be studied: ductility                  demand for short period steel frames; behavior of steel frames                  subjected to earthquake motions in both vertical and horizontal                 directions; and beam-column moment connections for severe                       earthquakes.  The main goals of this project are to evaluate the                need to include stiffer plates in box columns at the connection to              beams, to evaluate the ability of current element codes to predict              the nonlinear behavior occurring at the joint under limit loads,                and to accurately predict the capacity of building structures to                resist damaging earthquake motions without failure or collapse.                                                                                                 The research will add an international cooperative dimension to                 ongoing research at the University of Southern California (USC)                 supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.                    ECE8617623.  The proposed cooperative research should provide                   valuable data to the earthquake engineering profession on                       structural response to severe earthquake shaking.  This cooperative             project will make available to the USC team a large scale test                  facility on which full-size building components can be tested                   rather than half-scale, as at USC.  Comparison of results obtained              at the two facilities would provide valuable information on scaling             effects in such tests.  This project is relevant to the objectives              of the Science in Developing Countries Program which seeks to                   increase the level of cooperation between U.S. scientists and                   engineers and their counterparts in developing countries through                the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and                      techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual                      benefit.  Both groups of collaborators are highly respected                     scientists who have productive publication records in the field of              the proposal.
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