Reinforced concrete buildings with masonry infill is common practice in many developing countries. However, many practicing engineers still assumes that the walls are non [...]

In Japan, the Guideline for Post-Earthquake Damage Evaluation and Rehabilitation, originally developed in 1991 and revised in 2001, was revised in 2015 based on the lesso [...]

In order to evaluate residual seismic capacity of reinforcement concrete (RC) structures damaged due to earthquakes quantitatively, kinds of evaluation methods have been [...]

The tendency of stiffness reduction due to small cracks generated by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake was recognized for Onagawa Unit 2 Reactor Buildin [...]

In the Japanese seismic design criteria for beam-column joint of reinforced concrete frame structures with beam yielding, it is restricted that the shear force at the joi [...]

A shear wall is an effective earthquake resistant element in a reinforced concrete structure with its high stiffness and shear strength. Therefore, shear walls are widely [...]

Damage analysis was conducted on the static loading test data of the full-scale five-story reinforced concrete building utilizing wing walls for damage reduction. In expe [...]

As a kind of Ductile Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites (DFRCC), Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Cement-based Composites (HFRCC) have been developed. HFRCC includes two kin [...]

For the purpose of encouraging to seismically upgrade existent timber houses, we develop a newly simple and economical technique to improve seismic performance of timber [...]