Performance-based design (PBD) is a term used to describe techniques that have been promoted as rational improvements -- relative to prescriptive codified procedures --- [...]

With the ever-increasing use of performance-based structural engineering, particularly in the field of earthquake engineering, the peer review process has become almost u [...]

Various nonlinear analysis techniques were used to analyze a historic unreinforced masonry landmark structure in San Francisco in its original and seismically retrofitted [...]