The aim of this work is to give support in the update of the Complementary Technical Standards for Actions for Structural Design of the buildings of the Federal District [...]

For earthquake excitation, base isolators have been successfully used in building structures on firm ground. However, the use of these devices in buildings on soft soil f [...]

The Manual of Civil Structures (MOC), a model design code in Mexico, is in an updating process. The new version for this code will be published at the end of 2008. A majo [...]

Strength-reduction factors have been studied for firm ground and soft soils considering site effects. Soil-structure interaction has been recently accounted for by the au [...]

A use of optimal design was done to determine the level of security that has to be yielded in the new version on the Seismic Design Chapter of the Mexican Handbook of Civ [...]

A method to account for non-linear effects in the response of layered soil deposits is presented. This method is applied to modify the linear transfer function, in fact t [...]

A simplified method to evaluate the seismic behavior of high voltage electrical equipment is presented. Last seismic events occurred in Mexico had demonstrated the seismi [...]