In multi-story shear wall buildings with gravity columns and slabs, structural walls serve as the main lateral force resisting elements while frames are designed to resis [...]

To investigate the response of non-ductile reinforced concrete (RC) frame buildings under earthquake ground motions, before and after retrofit, a series of uni-directiona [...]

Although a lot of issues have been identified with the classical Rayleigh damping model, to date this model remains the most popular choice for nonlinear time-history ana [...]

This paper describes the development of a numerical model to predict the behaviour of a semi-active resettable tendon during seismic testing. Two resettable tendons were [...]

A three dimensional, approximately half scale experimental test has been carried out to investigate the effect of precast-prestressed floor units on the seismic performan [...]

Seismic performance of an existing reinforced concrete frame building constructed in New Zealand in the late 1950s was assessed by conducting non-linear static and non-li [...]

A second generation of self-centering/dissipating systems, referred to as Advanced Flag-Shape (AFS) systems, has been recently proposed by the authors, consisting of comb [...]

Simplistic design methods are commonly employed by design engineers to determine the approximate magnitude and distribution of inertial forces in reinforced concrete floo [...]

This paper describes analytical and experimental studies into the effectiveness and feasibility of semi-active resettable devices for seismic protection of civil engineer [...]