Recent earthquakes in Indonesia (2004), Chile (2010), and Japan (2011) are reminders of the possible occurrence of a longduration, large-magnitude earthquake in the Casca [...]

Recent major earthquake events that occurred in the Indian Ocean (2004), Chile (2010) and Japan (2011) generated tsunami waves of significant heights, which inundated nea [...]

Skew bridges are known to be more vulnerable to unseating during earthquakes than straight bridges of the same span length. Various reasons for this vulnerability have be [...]

A promising technique for improving the seismic performance of highway bridges with steel plate girder superstructures, is to dissipate energy through the inelastic defor [...]