In contrast to current conventional construction materials, i.e. steel or steel reinforced concrete, natural fibre reinforced polymer-concrete composite is environmentall [...]

During past decades the destructive potential and the complexity of soil liquefaction phenomenon associated with strong earthquakes has been widely documented. However, c [...]

In current seismic design scant attention is given to the flexibility of the supporting soil. For simplicity structures are assumed to be attached to a fixed rigid base. [...]

In all major earthquakes, structures in the proximity of rivers and coastal plains, are often affected by substantial excess pore-water pressure which may lead to soil li [...]

Devastating impact, e.g. falling parapet on a canopy, during strong earthquakes can cause severe damage to structures in the surroundings or even fatalities. This has bee [...]

Multiply-supported secondary structures attached across different floors of a primary structure are ubiquitous in big cities. Examples include advertisement boards, fire [...]

The seismic vulnerability of skewed bridges has been found to be caused by several factors, including the skew angle of the bridge, pounding between adjacent superstructu [...]

While there has been significant research into the behavior of uplifting (or rocking) rigid structures under seismic loading, far less attention has been paid to the beha [...]

Seismic pounding affects some buildings and bridge spans with insufficient expansion joints. During pounding, structures exert repeated hammer- like blows on adjacent str [...]

Pounding between adjacent bridge structures in earthquakes have been investigated by many researchers in the past. However, most of works is performed with an assumption [...]