In the wake of major earthquakes such as the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake, the design of towering structures like tower-supported steel stacks of thermal power plants [...]

This study proposes a new seismic retrofit system which uses soft spring devices connecting the main structure and a subsystem using response control devices. The subsyst [...]

This paper presents an inverse design method of SDOF structures through performance-based diagrams which can easily estimate the suitable design parameters for various da [...]