This paper presents the finite-element analytical results of the self-centering steel plate wall (SC-SPSW) specimen which was tested using pseudo-dynamic testing procedur [...]

Steel concentrically braced frames (CBFs) have been used as seismic force resisting systems for many years. In seismically active regions of the US, the chevron configura [...]

This paper presents the latest development of collaborative experimental environment at Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE). A collaborative hybrid simu [...]

After extensive tests in the Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) and Taiwan University laboratories, buckling restrained braces (BRBs) have gained wide [...]

This paper presents a numerical procedure which is called the vector form intrinsic finite element (VFIFE, V-5) method. It is used to analyze the nonlinear behavior of st [...]

Based on the observations made after several major earthquakes occurred in Taiwan, school building has been found most vulnerable to severe earthquake damage among all bu [...]

Four of the networked hybrid experiments are introduced in this paper. The first one is a Taiwan-USA-Japan joint research program. A full-scale three-story three-bay buck [...]

The original structural design of this case study consisted of five basement floors and a 34-story hotel tower in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The construction started in 1993 and [...]

A permanent and/or an emergency seismic retrofit technique of PC bar prestressing using corner blocks for shear critical RC columns that proposed by T. Yamakawa in 1999 w [...]

This study investigates the effectiveness of the modal analysis using three-degree-of freedom (3DOF) modal equations of motion to deal with the seismic analysis of two-wa [...]