Structures designed strictly in accordance with the required code of practice could still have a small probability of collapse in a major earthquake. This is the residual [...]

Collapse risk assessment of structures requires non-linear analytical models calibrated to representative experimental results, which can ideally capture the realistic co [...]

The perfectly matched layer (PML) has been employed as a very efficient absorbing boundary condition for solving elastodynamic problems in bounded domains by using the fi [...]

This paper presents a promising earthquake protection method by placing rubber-soil mixtures (RSM) around the foundation of structures for absorbing seismic energy and ex [...]

The current code of practice for building design in Hong Kong does not require any seismic considerations and generally there is no requirement to consider seismic ground [...]