It is important to maintain building functions following a large earthquake, and this requires a reasonable level of structural seismic capacity. Business continuity plan [...]

In order to clarify the collapse process of wooden houses, and to validate the effect of seismic diagnoses and seismic retrofits, a five-year research project named "A Sp [...]

In this paper, seismic behaviors of Japanese traditional wooden buildings are investigated by full-scale vibration tests and numerical analysis. Full-scale vibration test [...]

It is carried out the vibration test for full scale building by large three-dimensional shaking table in recent years. In this paper, we compare the present earthquake re [...]

In recent years the concept of Performance-based design and assessment requires the performance targets being expressed in a more direct way so that users can understand [...]

In this paper, a method of response analysis for traditional wooden structures is presented. Their columns are just placed and not fastened on foundations. Sliding and ro [...]

The present paper describes three key issues as follows: (1) A major research program on passive control of buildings: Shaking table tests using E-Defense will be conduct [...]