The risk of damage to the built environment from liquefaction can be significant. Soil settlements and differential displacements coupled with ground shaking can cause si [...]

The seismic performance of a 10-story building, designed using an eigenfrequency optimization procedure, is evaluated using Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE [...]

An increasing number of studies indicate that the elevated earthquake rates in the Central and Eastern United States are induced by fluid injection associated with the oi [...]

This study seeks to identify so-called “critical structural weaknesses” (CSWs) in older reinforced concrete (RC) wall-frame structures. These CSWs are defined as feat [...]

In northeast India, rapid urbanization and limited available land has led to the construction of multi-story, reinforced concrete frames with masonry infill walls on stee [...]

This study assesses the capability of a novel force-based (FB) frame element – termed gradient inelastic (GI) FB element – to simulate the softening response and even [...]

In this study, damage to built infrastructure from induced earthquakes is investigated through nonlinear dynamic structural response simulations. These simulations are ba [...]

This paper describes the design of more realistic structural models for centrifuge experiments that are used to characterize the response of damageable structures on liqu [...]

This paper investigates how altering design lateral strength may benefit the post-earthquake residual capacity of a structure. Lateral strength is a key design variable, [...]

Buildings located in seismically-active regions may experience ground shaking from multiple earthquakes, such as mainshock-aftershock sequences. In mainshock-aftershock s [...]