The coupled building system has shown to be a viable approach to mitigate dynamic responses. In the system two adjacent buildings are connected together using coupling li [...]

The use of prestressed precast concrete shear walls (PPCW) as the primary lateral force resisting system in seismic regions has been studied in previous researches. The P [...]

Buildings are usually constructed on soft soil, so there exists the soil-structure-dynamic interaction (SSI). The SSI has been considered to be an important factor in the [...]

Nonlinear energy sinks (NES) are efficient vibration control devices. Its application has been studied in mechanical, automobile and aerospace engineering and made some a [...]

The goal of this study was to investigate the behavior of reinforced concrete frame structures with self-centering beamcolumn and column-base connections and to confirm t [...]

A particle tuned mass damper (PTMD) system is the combination of a traditional tuned mass damper (TMD) and a particle damper (PD). As we all know, if properly tuned, the [...]

Vibration control devices such as tuned mass dampers (TMDs), tuned liquid dampers (TLD) and other supplemental damping devices have been used to improve the vibration per [...]

A four-tower high-rise with an isolated sky-corridor on the top has been designed in the seismic region of China. The 300 meters long sky corridor bridges the four 230 me [...]

This study proposes a design procedure for the optimization of buckling restrained braced frames (BRBF) subjected to seismic loading. The stiffness distribution of the bu [...]