The 2015 Gorkha Earthquakes (M7.8 with M7.3 aftershock) destroyed more than 27,000 classrooms and damaged more than 26,000 classrooms in Western and Central Nepal. Severa [...]

Over the past 10 years, a significant effort to retrofit schools in the Province of British Columbia has been undertaken. A central part of this work has been on the deve [...]

An earthquake early warning system has been developed and implemented in the Province of British Columbia in Western Canada. The system was developed in collaboration bet [...]

Ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) have been developed to predict the mean and standard deviation of the logarithm of spectral acceleration for a wide variety of [...]

In 2004, the Province of British Columbia (BC) announced a 10-15 year, $1.5 billion seismic retrofit program for the province's 750 at-risk public schools. The purpose of [...]

Recent megathrust earthquakes in Tohoku, Japan (Mw 9.0, 2011), El Maule, Chile (Mw 8.8, 2010), and Sumatra, Indonesia (Mw 9.1, 2004) have served as reminders that large m [...]

Occurrences of mega earthquakes have been reported more frequently in recent years. Due to their long duration and large number of cycles, the degradation of both stiffne [...]

In this study, a performance based approach is employed to investigate the effect of soil-structure interaction (SSI) on the response of integral abutment bridges. Non-li [...]

While arches are a well established structural system, with well understood performance under gravity loads, there are known issues under seismic loading. A study was und [...]

Built in 1993, the French Creek Bridge is located near Parksville on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (BC), Canada. The bridge is part of the British Columbia Smart Inf [...]