Multi-story timber structures are becoming progressively desirable for engineers and building owners owing to their aesthetic and environmental benefits and to their high [...]

In recent years several researches have been done on different ways of analyzing and designing arch dams but most of them were involved with cumbersome calculations and h [...]

The Integrated Soil-Structure Fragility Analysis (ISSFA) method, presented in this paper, is intended to utilize the recently available computation power with the establi [...]

An arch dam is a curved dam that carries a major part of its water load horizontally to the abutments by the arch action, the part so carried being primarily dependant on [...]

This study presents results from shake table and pseudo-dynamic tests of a wood building conducted at the University of California, Berkeley. A 13.5-ft×19.5-ft two-story [...]