The M w 6.3 Meinong earthquake, which struck southern Taiwan on February 6, 2016, was characterized by an oblique left lateral strike-slip motion with a minor reverse com [...]

The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Experimental Facility at the University of California, San Diego, a National Science Foundation (NSF) spon [...]

Several previous studies have shown that steel column baseplate connections that allow the structure to undergo rocking associated with column uplift may reduce building [...]

Systems of unattached, or freestanding, structures are highly vulnerable to damage and overturning when subject to seismic excitation. This class of structures includes s [...]

Damage to nonstructural components has accounted for the majority of earthquake losses in recent earthquakes, especially in the United States and Chile. This damage prima [...]

Precast concrete cladding (PCC) is used in many regions of the world as an architectural façade for buildings. Use of PCC is appealing in that panels can be constructed [...]

To date, numerous individual and system-level experimental studies have illustrated that the mode of foundation rocking advantageously can provide dissipation of seismic [...]

Seismic forces for attached nonstructural building components can be quite different from forces obtained from the current design code. This is because the current code i [...]