Structural engineers in the United States have turned to performance-based design methodologies for design of new buildings in order to find improved design solutions as [...]

This paper quantifies the impact of using different ground motion selection methods to evaluate the seismic performance of steel special moment frames. Two methods are in [...]

The conception, design, test setup, and predicted behavior of a SMA-based recentering beam-column connection are presented. Since the 1994 Northridge earthquake, many dif [...]