There is one of the questions with evaluating seismic performance of traditional wooden houses in Japan that structural characteristics of them are different by region. H [...]

In Japan, there are a lot of traditional timber buildings. In our investigation of the traditional timber houses, the structures which consist of tall hanging walls and b [...]

We performed a damage survey of temples and shrines near the source region of the 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki earthquake to estimate the distribution of strong ground mo [...]

This paper investigates the behavior of the soil around horizontally cyclic loaded pile by loading tests and the simulation analysis. Horizontal loading tests were conduc [...]

In 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake, there is a sharp contrast between the damage ratio of new wooden houses and aged wooden houses. Saratani et al. said that it is caused [...]

The objective of the research is to characterize the remaining performance of existing buildings in terms of the cumulative damage, such as the cumulative plastic ductili [...]

The cyclic lateral loading tests for the pile group in dry sand subjected extremely large displacement were conducted to investigate the mechanism of the strong nonlinear [...]

We have proposed an equivalent-performance response spectrum (EPRS), to evaluate response by earthquakes. The EPRS is the transformation of the restoring force characteri [...]