Appropriate performance of hospitals is of crucial importance in the aftermath of earthquakes. On the other hand, proper performance of a hospital is quite dependent on t [...]

Past earthquakes show that a majority of pipe damages occur as leaks. A leak is essentially the discharge of an opening in the pipe wall from which water is discharged in [...]

In structural engineering, it is always attempted to predict a set of events which greatly contribute to lifecycle of the structure. These factors must be considered by d [...]

​Nowadays  investigation  of  progressive  collapse  prevention  in  case  of  important  existing  and  new  buildings  due  to terrorist attacks, de [...]

Floating roof tanks, with capacity as large as one million barrel, because of their advantages are among very common tanks in oil industry, and only in Kharg Island of Ir [...]

Almost all of seismic design codes for building systems accept heavy damages to buildings, in case of large earthquakes, although they don’t accept the building’s col [...]

Most of seismic design codes for building systems allow heavy damages to buildings, in case of major earthquakes, provided that the buildings are prevented against collap [...]

One of the effective factors on the amount of input energy of a multi-story building is the mass distribution along the height of building. In the present paper this issu [...]

Of the three kinds of shelters required after the occurrence of a destructive earthquake in a populated area, namely emergency shelters, temporary shelters, and permanent [...]