Performance-based design (PBD) is a term used to describe techniques that have been promoted as rational improvements -- relative to prescriptive codified procedures --- [...]

The profession has had very few opportunities to study in detail the response of instrumented buildings subjected to earthquake ground motions that caused severe damage. [...]

Abandoned by its namesake and left to the pigeons in the 1980s, the Hibernia Bank Building (circa 1892) was used briefly by the San Francisco Police Department as a subst [...]

With the ever-increasing use of performance-based structural engineering, particularly in the field of earthquake engineering, the peer review process has become almost u [...]

Various nonlinear analysis techniques were used to analyze a historic unreinforced masonry landmark structure in San Francisco in its original and seismically retrofitted [...]