The effectiveness of control strategies in achieving the objectives of a performancebased-design is well accepted in the earthquake engineering community. Consequently, v [...]

Minimal-Disturbance Arm Damper (MDAD) has been proposed within the seismic retrofitting scheme of minimaldisturbance to building users. The MDAD is a light-weight and han [...]

In this paper, we present a new methodology for achieving economical retrofitting design solutions of 3-D irregular frames. Nonlinear fluid viscous dampers and their supp [...]

The effectiveness of control strategies in achieving the objectives of a performance-based-design is well accepted in the earthquake engineering community. Consequently, [...]

This paper presents a methodology for the optimal design of multiple Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) in 3D irregular buildings. The objective function minimizes the total mass [...]

Prediction of progressive collapse of buildings under extreme events is one of the challenges that the civil engineering community must face. The ability to predict progr [...]

With the conceptual development of performance-based design, the earthquake engineering community has begun to recognize the importance of controlling both interstory dri [...]

Dynamic progressive collapse analysis faces a great number of obstacles that often lead to the collapse of the analysis prior to the actual analysis of collapse. Hence, i [...]