The Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council (LATBSDC) and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Tall Buildings Initiative (PEER TBI) performance-bas [...]

Building codes intend to provide for safe buildings by prescribing provisions that generally address all building and construction types. Tall buildings are a special cla [...]

A research program was conducted to investigate the relationship between shear strength and deformation capacity of reinforced concrete structural walls. The program incl [...]

The use of reinforced concrete walls to resist lateral demands from earthquakes is common. Two large-scale reinforced concrete walls were tested under a constant axial gr [...]

Existing approaches used to model the lateral load versus deformation responses of reinforced concrete (RC) members typically assume uncoupled axial/flexural and shear re [...]

During an earthquake, structures are subjected to both horizontal and vertical shaking. Most structures are rather insensitive to variations in the vertical acceleration [...]

This paper presents experimental results from a dynamic test on a full-scale, four-story precast concrete building that utilized unbonded post-tensioned (UPT) walls in on [...]

Field observations following recent earthquakes (2010 Chile, 2011 New Zealand) identified the vulnerability of flexuredominant shear walls to brittle compression and stre [...]

A boom in tall building construction along with peer review of alternative performance-based designs has recently exposed fundamental issues within the field of earthquak [...]

Between 1950’s and 1970’s, a significant number of buildings were constructed using lightly reinforced, perimeter walls with openings. Evaluation and rehabilitation o [...]