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Reinforced concrete (RC) highway bridges are primary lifeline infrastructures, especially where earthquakes commonly occur. Accurate seismic structural analysis is essent [...]
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This paper is an attempt to address solutions to two common problems associated with nonlinear response history analysis (NRHA). The first is the convergence problems tha [...]
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An enhanced toggle-brace-damper (TBD) installation configuration with the damper directly connected to the beam-column joint is introduced. Magnification factor for dampe [...]
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In order to improve the deformability of high performance concrete shear wall, a new strategy of transverse confining stirrup, which is called piecewise confining stirrup [...]
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According to the characteristics of shear wall structures, the destructive story drift ratio is employed to represent the performance index of structures. Then, the perfo [...]
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