Smart rubber bearings in which shape memory alloy (SMA) wires are incorporated possess improved performance compared to traditional steel- and fiber-reinforced elastomeri [...]

The cardinal component of the AP1000 nuclear island passive containment cooling system which is the much more different from other normal ones is the huge gravity water t [...]

Earthquakes are one of the most dangerous and hurting fatalities people are facing. Shock waves impose displacements on the base of buildings which are excited to dynamic [...]

Semi-active control devices have been shown to be more energy efficient than active devices and more effective in reducing seismic structural vibration than passive devic [...]

Collision of structural components is one of the leading reasons which result in structure collapse during earthquakes. Because of the limitations of physical experiment, [...]

The potential financial and social loss due to earthquakes in China has increased significantly over the past decades due to the country’s rapid growth and increase in [...]

Downhole seismic testing is one field test that is commonly used to determine compression-wave (P) and shearwave (S) velocity profiles in geotechnical earthquake engineer [...]

In 2006, two major earthquakes shook Taiwan and brought destructions and casualties to eastern and southern parts of the island. The first happened on April 1st with magn [...]

The authors performed subsurface field investigations at liquefaction/non-liquefaction sites from the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake. These sites were re-investigated because t [...]