Assessment of cast-in anchors under seismic actions

The demand of seismic resistant products has grown in the last years to assure the safety of anchoring systems for structural and non-structural connections subjected to actions coming from earthquakes. Nearly all the current standards and studies are mainly focused on post-installed anchors. This article describes the tests and the considera­tions based on [1] for the assessment of cast-in anchors under seismic action.

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