We performed a damage survey of temples and shrines near the source region of the 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki earthquake to estimate the distribution of strong ground mo [...]

The building structural engineers can’t necessarily predict the fabrication cost from the structural weight appropriately. It is because the fabrication cost for steel [...]

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 [...]

The objectives of this study are to evaluate the dynamic performance of Japanese conventional post & beam wooden dwelling house, and to compare the estimated dynamic [...]