Lessons learned from past earthquake damage suggest the potential benefit of rocking systems that reduce earthquake damage. This paper evaluates a structural system that [...]

The study uses finite element modeling to discuss the effect of floater response on tower moments in a floating offshore wind turbine system. A semi-submersible floating [...]

Previous studies cleared that rocking behaviors can reduce seismic damages of some buildings. Based on this knowledge, some rocking structural systems which are allowed t [...]

Observations from past earthquakes suggest that some buildings survived severe ground motion because of accidental uplift at their foundation. Such notion has motivated t [...]

Previous studies have suggested that rocking vibration accompanied with uplift motion might reduce the seismic damage of buildings subjected to strong earthquake motions. [...]

It has been pointed out that buildings during strong earthquakes have been subjected to foundation uplift. The rocking motion accompanied by uplift can reduce the damage [...]

Currently lots of buildings are required to be functional or recovered promptly even after sever earthquakes. To make them meet this requirement, we propose a self-center [...]