Bogotá, a megacity with almost 8 million inhabitants is prone to a significant earthquake hazard due to nearby active faults as well as subduction megathrust earthquakes [...]

Industrialized reinforced concrete (RC) systems have become a solution widely used in some Latin American countries as an efficient alternative system for housing constru [...]

Seismic analysis and design of buildings rely on the proper estimation of the mass that effectively contributes as inertia forces on the structure. For the purpose of est [...]

A recently developed scaling procedure called the modal pushover-based scaling (MPS) has been successfully implemented in the seismic analysis of single and multi-story b [...]

Nonlinear response history analysis (RHA) has been a powerful tool in performance-based seismic engineering for validating proposed design of new or performance assessmen [...]