This paper focuses on the effects of velocity pulse of near-fault ground motions on the structural damage potential. Two sets of near-fault ground motion records from Chi [...]

Effective earthquake monitoring and forecasting speeds up restoration of sites and reduces earthquake losses. In the 1970s, with the rapid development of the GPS technolo [...]

This paper proposes an integrated seismic optimum design approach for the high-rise buildings with girder transfer floor, including topology optimum design of the transfe [...]

In this paper, a new idea for designing metallic damper is presented, i.e. metallic damper with “dual functions”, because they not only provide certain added stiffnes [...]