Exterior/partition flat walls monolithically constructed in concrete buildings were severely damaged by the 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan. Damage [...]

A 6-story full-scale reinforced concrete building subjected to severe earthquake loading simulated by E-Defense at Kobe, Japan experienced the collapse process which was [...]

E-Defense, the world largest three-dimensional earthquake simulator, has been operated and available for shake table tests since 2005. A five-year national project on sei [...]