Recent decade has witnessed the improvement of performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) methods. Therefore, procedures to estimate performance levels of structures [...]

There seems to be many situations where an inelastic analysis needs to be performed on a frame structure. In the last decades, the subject has received much interest from [...]

The Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) is a classical engineering device consisting of a mass, a spring and a viscous damper attached to a vibrating main system in order to attenuat [...]