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 [...]

Reinforced concrete squat walls are common in low-rise construction and as wall segments formed by window and door openings in perimeter walls. Existing approaches used t [...]

Full-Scale cyclic field testing was performed on a 3x3 pile group and a separate single fixed-head pile to evaluate group interaction effects. The piles in each experimen [...]

Performance based design for structures subject to strong ground motion has been gaining major attention in the last few years. A conceptual framework for performance bas [...]