This paper gives a brief overview of measures taken in the USA to protect highways and bridges from earthquake damage. It focuses on ten years of applied research carried [...]

This paper tries to probe the composition of probability of failure (POF) in reliability-based structural design. The focus is on extreme event (EE) related risk of struc [...]

When civil structures are equipped with earthquake protective systems such as damping devices and base isolators, they are likely to be non-classically damped. In additio [...]

A new roller seismic isolation bearing is developed for use in highway bridges. This new bearing uses rolling of cylindrical rollers on V-shaped sloping surfaces to achie [...]

Studies of 3D temporal characteristics of earthquake ground motions and the structural responses are definitely motivated by seismic damage to structures. It is well know [...]

Accurate estimation of the seismic response of structures is an important issue in aseismic design. Under earthquake excitations, the deformation and internal force distr [...]