The fifteen story Alto Rio building built between 2007 and 2009 in the city of Concepción, Chile, was the only modern building to experience catastrophic collapse during [...]

In multiple-building real state complexes, where seismic protection needs to be delivered to all structures, individual isolation may bring a series of construction diffi [...]

In this research work a prescriptive methodology for preliminary design of light-frame shear wall buildings up to 6 floors against seismic loads is proposed. The research [...]