Review of performance requirements for inter-module connections in multi-story modular buildings

Modular composite building in urgent emergency engineering projects: A case study of accelerated design and construction of Wuhan Thunder God Mountain/Leishenshan hospital to COVID-19 pandemic

“…Because the prefabricated components are collected in the factory's controlled environment, designers and constructors can eliminate all problems before entering the construction site and ensure that all modu contractors' can be a beginning the construction site. In contrast, traditional buildings rely more on the weather and contractors' activities at different levels in the whole project [ 12 , 13 ].…”

An Analysis on Promoting Prefabrication Implementation in Construction Industry towards Sustainability

“…Some researchers focused on fire safety and concrete materials adoption [16]. The modular connection performance, as a unique problem of prefabricated buildings compared to traditional buildings, had also received attention from researchers [137]. In addition, due to the characteristic of the high standard, many studies proved that the prefabricated construction technology was more suitable and valuable to combine smart and digital technologies, such as 3D scanning, BIM, and artificial intelligence [138][139][140][141].…”

Seismic performance of mid-to-high rise modular steel construction - A critical review

“…Mid-to-high rise MSC requires not only adequately stiffened modules to form the LFRS, but also requires a high-performance connection system to ensure efficient load transfer systems both horizontally and vertically. This makes these two objectives, i.e., in regards to, the LFRS and connection system, the most essential issues affecting the seismic performance of MSC for all types of structural systems [ 30 ]. However, it is challenging for mid-to-high rise MSC to resist lateral force efficiently, owing to the discontinuities in the lateral-force resistant component, and the fact that the connection system for MSC should meet structural demands along with the manufacturing and construction considerations.…”

“…Srisangeerthanan et al [ 30 ] reported that intra-module connections may have less influence on the overall seismic performance of MSC, as that the intra-module connections are completed off-site manufactured in factory conditions. However, it can be concluded from the tests on the module-to-module connection in Table 1 that the intra-module beam-to-column connection have a significant influence on the seismic performance of the module-to-module connections, thereby affecting the overall seismic performance of MSC.…”