The Great East Japan Earthquake exerted serious damage over an unprecedentedly wide range. The earthquake prevented the supply of materials indispensable to restoration a [...]

This study mainly focused on seismic response analysis of highway vehicles during the earthquake running on the elevated structure. Elevated structures those mainly domin [...]

Nepal is located on a part of the Himalayan orogeny that has induced many destructive earthquakes there and in surrounding areas. Kathmandu is the capital and a center of [...]

The past historical tsunamis have killed many people, who were not able to or did not evacuate from the calamity. This study aims to reveal the relationship between the f [...]

Evaluation of the seismic performance of a buried pipeline changes depending on whether the pipe slips against the surrounding soil. When slippage occurs, stress and stra [...]

In the past earthquakes such as the 2004 Niigata-ken Chuetsu Earthquake and the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake in Japan, serious damage to plain concrete [...]

The earthquake response analysis of earth structures using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) was introduced in this paper. We showed that the corrective smoothed [...]

Recently, many types of reinforcement have been developed to prevent tombstone from overturning. 3-dimensional shaking table tests of full-scale tombstone models were con [...]