During strong earthquake excitations, base-isolated buildings may collide, either with the surrounding moat wall or with adjacent buildings. This unfavorable possibility [...]

Base isolation has proven an effective strategy to minimize structural and nonstructural damage, prevent functionality disruption and protect sensitive equipment in build [...]

This paper presents a new methodology that is used to numerically simulate buildings in three-dimensions, which are subjected to pounding during strong earthquakes. The s [...]

Strong earthquakes are common causes of destruction of ancient monuments, such as classical columns and colonnades. Ancient classical columns of great archaeological sign [...]

Very often, especially in densely-resided areas and city centers, neighboring buildings are constructed very close to each other, without sufficient clearance between the [...]

The response of multi-storey structures may be controlled under earthquake actions by installing seismic isolators at various storey-levels. By vertically distributing is [...]

Seismic isolation is used in relatively stiff buildings to reduce the induced seismic loads, by shifting their fundamental periods outside the dangerous for resonance ran [...]

The investigation of the dynamic behavior of rigid block assemblies that are free to rock and slide under dynamic loading is an extremely complicated phenomenon. The dyna [...]

This paper focuses on the simulation of the use of rubber shock absorbers that can be used as an impact mitigation measure for potential earthquake induced poundings of s [...]

Considering a limited seismic gap around a seismically isolated building, in combination with a very strong earthquake excitation, there is always the possibility of poun [...]