Webinars

Journal Papers

• Nazari, M. and Sritharan, S.(2017). Dynamic Evaluation of PreWEC Systems with Varying Hysteretic Energy Dissipation. Submitted to ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.(In press).
• Liu, Q., French, C., and Sritharan, S. (2018). Study on interaction between a PREWEC system and surrounding structure. ACI Structural Journal (Accepted).
• Watkins, J., Sritharan, S., Nagae, T., and Henry, R.S.(2017). Computational modelling of a four-storey post-tensioned concrete building subjected to shake table testing. Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Dataset. DOI: 50 (4): 594-607.
• Kalliontzis, D., Sritharan, S. (2018). Characterizing Dynamic Decay of Motion of Free Rocking Members. Earthquake Spectra (In press).
• Twigden, K. M., Sritharan, S. and Henry, R. S. (2017). Cyclic Testing of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Concrete Wall Systems with and without Supplemental Damping. Engineering Structures. 140: 406-420.
• Abramson, D. A., Musselman, E., and Sritharan, S. (2017). Behavior of Unbonded Multistrand Post-Tensioning Anchorage Systems Under Monotonic and Cyclical Loads. PCI Journal 62(1) 31-48.
• Nazari, M., Sritharan, S., and Aaleti, S. (2016). Single precast concrete rocking walls as earthquake force-resisting elements. Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2829.
• Henry, R. S., Sritharan, S., and Ingham, J.M. (2016). Finite Element Analysis of PreWEC Self-centering Concrete Wall System. Engineering Structures. 115: 28–41.
• Henry, R. S., Sritharan, S., and Ingham, J.M. (2016). Residual Drift Analyses of Realistic Self-centering Concrete Wall Systems. Earthquakes and Structures 10(2):409-428.
• Musselman, E., Fournier, M., McAlpine, P. and Sritharan, S. (2015). Behavior of unbonded post-tensioning monostrand anchorage systems under short duration, high amplitude cyclical loading. Engineering Structures 104 (12) 116-125.
• Kalliontzis, D., Sritharan, S., and Schultz, A. (2016). Improved Coefficient of Restitution Estimation for Free Rocking Members. J. Struct. Eng. , 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0001598 , 06016002.

Experimental Data:

• Nazari, M., Aaleti, S., Sritharan, S. (2015). Shake Table Testing of Precast Rocking Wall with Side column_1 (PreWEC-s1) @ UNR. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D3WM13V3P
• Abramson, D., Fournier, M., Mcalpine, P., Musselman, E., Sritharan, S. (2015). Monostrand Post-Tensioning Anchor Evaluation Tests. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D3513TW93
• Nazari, M., Aaleti, S., Sritharan, S. (2015). Shake Table Testing of Precast Rocking Wall with Side column_2 (PreWEC-s2) @ UNR. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D3RV0D20F
• Liu, Q., French, C., Sritharan, S., Nakaki, S.(2015).Rocking Wall-Floor-Column Subassemblage Pseudo-Static Cyclic Test at NEES@UMN (MAST) Specimen 1. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D3416T098
• Kalliontzis, D., Nazari, M., Sritharan, S. (2015). Snap-back Testing for Characterizing Dynamic behavior of Precast Rocking Columns. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D31834367
• Abramson, D., Fournier, M., Musselman, E., Schokker, A., Sritharan, S., (2013).Multistrand Post-Tensioning Anchor Evaluation Tests. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D3N873015
• Nazari, M., Aaleti, S., Sritharan, S. (2015).Shake Table Testing of Single Rocking Wall_1 (SRW1) @ UNR. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D3N29P75Z
• Nazari, M., Aaleti, S., Sritharan, S., (2015). Shake Table Testing of Single Rocking Wall_2 (SRW2) @ UNR. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D3H98ZF0B
• Nazari, M., Aaleti, S., Sritharan S. (2015). Shake Table Testing of Single Rocking Wall_3 (SRW3) @ UNR. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D3CJ87M6Z
• Nazari, M., Aaleti, S., Sritharan, S. (2015).Shake Table Testing of Single Rocking Wall_4 (SRW4) @ UNR. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D37S7HT2T
• Liu, Q., Watkins, J., French, C., Sritharan, S., Nakaki, S. (2015). Rocking Wall-Floor-Column Subassemblage Pseudo-Static Cyclic Test at NEES@UMN (MAST) Specimen 2. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)(distributor). Dataset. DOI: 10.4231/D30C4SK9X
• Nazari, M., Aaleti, S., Sritharan, S. Shake Table Testing of Precast Rocking Wall with End column_2 (PreWEC2) @ UNR DOI:10.17603/DS2WK5B

Conference Papers

• Musselman ES, Fournier M, Abramson D, Sritharan S. (2014). Comprehensive evaluation of post-tensioning anchorage systems for seismic resilient rocking wall structures. Proceedings of the 10th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Anchorage, AK, 2014.
• Maryam Nazari, Sriram Aaleti and Sri Sritharan. (2014). Shake Table Testing of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Precast Concrete Walls. Accepted for Oral Presentation, Proceedings of the 10th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Anchorage, AK, 2014.
• Maryam Nazari, Sri Sritharan and Sriram Aaleti. (2014). An Experimental Evaluation of Unbonded Post- Tensioned Pre-cast Rocking Walls. Accepted for Oral Presentation, Proceedings of the PCI Convention and National Bridge Conference, Washington, D.C. 2014.
• Watkins, J., Twigden, K. M., Henry, R. S., Ma, Q. T., Sritharan, S., & Cheng, Z. (2013). Experimental testing of the dynamic response and wall-to-floor connections in self-centering walls. Proceedings of the NZ Concrete Industry Conference 2013. Queenstown, New Zealand.
• Twigden, K. M., Watkins, J., Henry, R. S., & Sritharan, S. (2013). Dynamic test evaluation of numerical models for unbonded post-tensioned concrete walls. Proceedings of the 2013 NZSEE Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

Report/Theses

• Dimitrios Kalliontzis (2014). Understanding Dynamic Decay of Motion of Rocking Concrete Members. MS Thesis, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
• Abramson, Daniel Arden (2013). Comprehensive evaluation of multistrand post-tensioning anchorage systems for seismic resilient rocking wall structures. MS Thesis, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN.

Presentations

• Sri Sritharan, Maryam Nazari and Sriram Aaleti. (2013). Shake Table Tests of Precast Concrete Walls Designed with Unbonded Post-Tensioning. Oral Presentation, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference of ASCE, EMI 2013, North-western University, Evanston, IL.
• Sritharan Sri, Nazari Maryam and Aaleti Sriram. (2013). Influence of Different Damping Components on Rocking Structural Members. Oral Presentation, 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, COMPDYN 2013, Kos Island, Greece.
• Maryam Nazari, Sri Sritharan and Sriram Aaleti. (2013). Shake Table Testing of Rocking Pre-cast Concrete Walls. Oral and Poster Presentation, Quake Summit 2013, University of Nevada at Reno.
• Maryam Nazari, Sri Sritharan and Sriram Aaleti. (2012). NEESR-CR: Rocking Wall Project- Dynamic Response Characterization. Oral Presentation, Young Researchers Symposium for NEES annual meeting, Quake Summit 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.

Other Relevant Publications

• MJ Nigel Priestley, S Sritharan, James R Conley, Stefano Pampanin. Preliminary results and conclusions from the PRESSS five-story precast concrete test building. PCI journal, ISSN 0887-9672.
• Richard S. Henry, Sriram Aaleti, Sri Sritharan, and Jason M. Ingham (2010). Concept and Finite-Element Modeling of New Steel Shear Connectors for Self-Centering Wall Systems. J. Eng. Mech., 136 (2), 220-229.
• Sriram Aaleti, Sri Sritharan. (2009). A simplified analysis method for characterizing unbonded post-tensioned precast wall systems. Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2009, Pages 2966-2975.

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