Earthquakes may induce severe fire disasters in urban regions. Burnt buildings may have to be demolished, even if they have merely slight seismic damage, which will drama [...]

Earthquake-induced building collapses have been effectively mitigated in recent years. However, earthquake-induced economic losses have continued to rise. Following the o [...]

In recent years, a combination of rapid construction of super-tall buildings and frequent occurrence of strong earthquakes worldwide demands a rational seismic design met [...]

A M6.5 earthquake struck Ludian County, Yunan Province, China on August 3, 2014. The earthquake was proved to be very destructive, although the magnitude is moderate. The [...]

On 12 May 2008, a violent earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 occurred in Wenchuan, Sichuan Province, China. The earthquake resulted in a large number of collapses and dam [...]

The response dispersion of structures under strong earthquakes significantly restricts the implementation of performance based seismic design. Besides the variation of ea [...]

Collapse is a critical ultimate state for buildings under earthquake. Though collapse should theoretically be avoid for any buildings under any earthquake, it is still ve [...]