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Moment connections of steel moment resisting frames between I beams and HSS columns are studied. Two experimental prototypes were modeled and calibrated with numerical simulations using ANSYS Workbench software. In these models, good enough approximations were computed with respect to reported experimental results. Aditional prototypes were analyzed with non-liner finite element, some connections of I-beam to HSS tubular columns with external diaphragm were modeled, and others connections with concrete filled tubular (CFT) columns. Some of the variants studied are external diaphragms with a perimetral ring, with a perimetral ring and partial lateral plates, and with a perimetral ring and complete lateral plates. The variation in the width of the joint between the flanges and the column wall is also analyzed. Strengths and stiffnesses are compared between filled and no filled connections. Nonlinear finite element analysis showed that the connections fail at storey drift angles larger than 2.0%. These results are the base of a ductile design procedure for steel buildings with these type of connections.  

The coastal profile of South America is one of the areas with the highest seismic activity in the region and in the world. The Chile earthquake of 1960 is the largest magnitude recorded instrumentally with moment magnitude Mw = 9.5. In the last 10 years, destructive seismic events have been recorded in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire. In the case of Ecuador, the most important event is the Earthquake of April 16, 2016 (16A) of magnitude 7.8Mw. This paper examines ground motion records for the 16A earthquake, in the cities of Pedernales, Esmeraldas, Portoviejo and Manta. The elastic and inelastic time-history response of single degree of freedom systems is calculated using the Newmark-beta method. Finally, a MATLAB code is presented to calculate the constant ductility spectra for different ductility values in the four stations under study.

The author of the study emphasizes the influence of the actio Pauliana of Roman civil /private/ law on bankruptcy law, regulated in the civil code/s/ of many European and extra-European countries. He also gives an overview on legal doctrine as well as legal practice rooted in the concept of the actio Pauliana. The author takes into consideration the (second) Sale of Goods Act adopted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1979 as well as the European Convention on Certain International Aspects of Bankruptcy, adopted in 1990, with regard to the actio Pauliana. In the final part of the study the author points out that the approximation or harmonisation of bankruptcy law should be based on legal doctrine as well as on comparative legal history. The most important legal means of the lenghty harmonisation process of bankruptcy law are, in his view, the multilateral international conventions.

Against the general idea that in galliarum terrae always was determinant the Roman Law in France, I think that not always was so, and the influence of Roman Law was up in medieval times of the interest of french monarchs that in certain way renewed the old idea of the diferences between pars Orientis and pars Occidentis in the History of the european Jurisprudence. As a rule, in medieval times the Roman Law was reserved in the inner of cathedrals and monasteries; with the “Rénaissance” returned the interest for Roman Law like cultural idea due to the clasicism of the that time, later were tensions on the learning of Roman Law in the french Universities, and in trials. With the french revolution and inspired Napoleón by Domat and Pothier, the “code civil français” returned to the idea of a general Code based on roman jurisprudence, but from 1804 till 1954 beginned a century of progressive decadency on Roman Law in France and Europe

Con este estudio hacemos un análisis histórico del status de la mujer romana: desde la Etapa Arcaica, sometida al control patriarcal, a la conquista de su emancipación jurídica privada, en el Imperio.

Emperor Constantine is surely the last great ruler of the Roman Empire. None of his successors will succeed in bringing together the entire territory under the same effective power. To this purpose, Constantine will assume the discourse of the majority religion of the Empire in the fourth century: Christianity. Accordingly, through its legislation, it will enshrine a model of woman incardinated in conjugal fidelity that will put an end to a certain autonomy that women had achieved in previous years.

The excellent academic formation received during his childhood would have enabled that Quintus Aelius Tubero the Younger to start working at the Roman Forum. Nevertheless, according to the testimony of Pomponius (D. 1.2.2.46, l. s. enchir.), it seems that his promising career would have been truncated as a consequence of the judicial process against Quintus Ligarius. The present work aims to shed light over the details of a process, which undoubtly marked a turning point in his life.

Celsus' definition of law (ius est ars boni et aequi) indicates general criteria for the production, interpretation and application of law. Have they been respected in the Italian legislation on the recent pandemic emergency?

In this paper we have analysed the relevance in judicial practice of the lex Tabulae Bembinae. The legal terminology used in various processes has been studied to verify the importance of the Gracchan reform in the forensic reality of the quaestiones perpetuae.

 Recensión de ZAMORA MANZANO, J.L. - ORTEGA GONZÁLEZ, T., Innovación en la enseñanza del Derecho romano con las TIC del siglo XXI, Dykinson, Madrid, 2022