There are many traditional timber structures, such as temples, shrines and town houses in Japan. Their rational seismic evaluation is the most important in order to mitig [...]

In order to clarify the collapse process of wooden houses, and to validate the effect of seismic diagnoses and seismic retrofits, a five-year research project named "A Sp [...]

It is carried out the vibration test for full scale building by large three-dimensional shaking table in recent years. In this paper, we compare the present earthquake re [...]

In recent years the concept of Performance-based design and assessment requires the performance targets being expressed in a more direct way so that users can understand [...]