Masonry buildings in seismic prone areas need confining bond beams and tie columns. A series of confined masonry walls were analytically investigated by finite element an [...]

Iran is one of the most seismically active regions in the world. A major challenge of identifying all high-risk buildings should be embarked in large cities of Iran such [...]

Collapse of Buildings due to the earthquakes causes a great number of casualties, financial losses and makes accessing locations difficult for the rescue teams. So, the c [...]

Aboveground cylindrical liquid storage tanks are important components of industrial plants especially oil refineries and petrochemical facilities. Performance of liquid s [...]

Performance of slender reinforced concrete columns with insufficient splice length and widely spaced transverse bars has been discussed in this paper. Reinforced concrete [...]

Many of elevated water tanks damaged during an earthquake occurred at 31 of March 2005 in Silakhor, Iran. In this study, the seismic performance of eight elevated water t [...]

During severe earthquakes, the most important parameter affecting the response of unanchored tanks is the uplift of their base plates from the foundation. This study main [...]