The effectiveness of control strategies in achieving the objectives of a performancebased-design is well accepted in the earthquake engineering community. Consequently, v [...]

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 [...]

In recent earthquakes in Chile and New Zealand (2010 and 2011, respectively), reinforced concrete (RC) walls underwent failure mechanisms which were not observed/reported [...]

This paper reports a full scale shake table testing of a fully-floating ceiling within a steel frame. The 2.15 m by 4.55 m ceiling is suspended from the floor above by ve [...]

Structural elements in conventional frame buildings are connected using “wet joints” (i.e. cast in-situ joints) to emulate the behaviour of a monolithic reinforced co [...]

Out-of-plane instability is identified as one of the failure modes of rectangular RC walls. This mode of failure was previously observed in experimental studies of rectan [...]

During past few decades, seismic design practices have significantly advanced to achieve better preparedness against probable earthquake events. It is reported that most [...]

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 [...]

The effectiveness of control strategies in achieving the objectives of a performance-based-design is well accepted in the earthquake engineering community. Consequently, [...]

Modern structures are designed with a sacrificial design principle that values life safety at the expense of energy-absorbing structural damage. The significant long term [...]