Performance-based assessment of slender reinforced concrete columns typical of precast industrial buildings

Typically, the columns of the prefabricated reinforced concrete (RC) industrial buildings and warehouses with large clear storey heights are very slender, with aspect ratios (shear span to width) larger than 10. In addition to supporting the gravity loads, the columns also provide strength, stiffness, dissipation and displacement capacity of the primary lateral-load resisting system. However, current empirical relationships that predict the non-linear response and failure mechanisms of RC columns have been developed mainly for lower aspect ratios (