In Japan, many buildings and structures suffered damages during the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake that occurred off the Pacific Coast. Since then, structural health monitoring ( [...]

The anomalous amplification of the long-period ground motions in the Osaka and Ise Bay areas in the western part of mainland Japan during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake was i [...]

The Mw 7.9 Nepal Earthquake at AM11：56, April 25, 2015 (also known as the Gorkha Earthquake) resulted in a lot of injured people and caused numerous buildings, includin [...]

In estimation of a seismic capacity of a building, it is important to consider various patterns of external forces that can be generated from a rupture of a seismic fault [...]

A pile top seismic isolation system is used for constructing base-isolated buildings. In this system, seismic isolators are set on the pile’s top directly, and piles ar [...]