This paper proposes a rocking system to limit the residual deformation of moment-resisting frames in order to improve the immediate occupancy performance and reduce the r [...]

The Japanese seismic design code adopts a factor Ds for chevron-braced frames to consider the seismic force reduction due to the ductility. The Ds value varies from 0.25 [...]

The objective of this research is to identify the maximum drift angle sustained by a story level during an earthquake event. To accomplish this, strain patterns in suitab [...]

Typically, in apartment houses, there are large openings in the walls facing a balcony or corridor. In small apartment houses, the structural contribution of these walls [...]

A shallow embedded steel column base consisting of an exposed column base and a covering reinforced concrete (RC) floor slab is examined. A series of tests are conducted [...]

A series of full-scale shaking table tests was conducted for a full-scale 21-story steel building frame subjected to a series of long-period, long-duration ground motions [...]