Strong earthquakes are common causes of destruction of ancient monuments, such as classical columns and colonnades. Ancient classical columns of great archaeological sign [...]

The investigation of the dynamic behavior of rigid block assemblies that are free to rock and slide under dynamic loading is an extremely complicated phenomenon. The dyna [...]

Considering a limited seismic gap around a seismically isolated building, in combination with a very strong earthquake excitation, there is always the possibility of poun [...]

In this research work, the Discrete Element Methods (DEM) is utilized to investigate the response of ancient multi-drum columns during harmonic and earthquake excitations [...]

Seismic isolation is used in relatively stiff buildings to reduce their induced seismic loads, by shifting their fundamental periods outside the dangerous for resonance r [...]