Mexico City’s code for the design and construction of masonry structures was recently revised to include new and updated provisions related to a wide range of subjects, [...]

Two half-scale three-story specimens with a single axis of a typical earthquake resistant structural system for housing with different amounts of horizontal reinforcement [...]

The stiffness degradation and damping ratio characteristics of low-rise steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) walls subjected to shake table excitations is presented in [...]

The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake and the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake revealed the seismically insufficient performance of the RC school buildings both in Mexico and Taiwan. Se [...]

Previous low-rise concrete shear walls tested under cyclic loading and designed to fail in shear, reinforced with 50% of the minimum code prescribed wall reinforcement, e [...]

In order to evaluate the dynamic behavior of housing buildings made of confined masonry in Mexico, a series of shaking-table tests on small-scale models were conducted at [...]