Research Article
Seismic Performance Comparison of a High-Content SDA Frame and Standard RC Frame
Table 8
Damage assessment of Portland cement concrete frame.
| | Test sequence | Portland cement concrete frame | |
Columns |
Beams | | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | B1 | B1 |
| | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| | 2 | — | Shear crack at the outer face of the beam-column joint | Shear crack at both inner and outer faces of the beam-column joints | Shear crack at the inner face of the beam-column joint | — | — |
| | 3 | Shear crack at the outer face of the beam-column joint | Vertical crack extension towards the end of outer face of the column | Vertical crack extending till the end of the outer face of the column | — | — | Vertical crack at the end of the beam near column C3 |
| | 4 | Vertical crack on the outer face of the column | — | — | Shear crack at the outer face of the beam-column joint | — | — |
| | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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