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Several unreinforced masonry buildings damaged during the 2014 South Napa earthquake, California, USA, were investigated after the earthquake. The numerical analyses cond [...]
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Hybrid Simulation (HS) is a fast-growing computational/physical testing technique that can replace shaking table tests using an online computational substructure to updat [...]
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Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) represent an example of an energy-efficient structural system. They are composed of an insulation core, such as expanded polystyrene (E [...]
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Acceleration response spectrum (ARS) is a tool that has conveniently been used in earthquake engineering in the last 75 years. One of the common uses of the response spec [...]
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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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The theory of micromechanical homogenization is used for the prediction of effective material properties for the use in macroscopic nonlinear simulations of masonry struc [...]
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The outer curtain wall system of Shanghai Tower adopts flexible zonal hanging glass curtain wall (CW) system, which is vertically hung from the suspension beam of the mec [...]
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The self-centering steel plate shear wall (SC-SPSW) system is a new seismic load-resisting system that combines the steel plate shear wall (SPSW) and the post-tensioned ( [...]
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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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The paper presents an analytical formulation of an element removal algorithm based on dynamic equilibrium and the resulting transient change in system kinematics. The alg [...]
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