Distinct structural systems prevail in different regions of the world depending on the construction skills, history and industrial context of each particular community. J [...]

With half of the world's megacities located in seismic regions, there is an urgent need for tall structures that can withstand the large demands imposed by earthquakes wh [...]

A plasticity-damage constitutive model for timber, which builds upon previous models developed for other quasi-brittle materials like concrete, is proposed in this articl [...]

Nonlinear response-history analyses are used by the engineering community as the most reliable technique to estimate structural behaviour. In such analyses, besides an ad [...]