The flexible pipeline connection is one of the key components for the water supply and drainage system in a base-isolated building. It is able to accommodate the large di [...]

WenChuan and Lushan earthquakes in China caused significant damages of many masonry buildings. Most may not collapse, however, not be suitable for continuous living. Base [...]

Engineering structures sustains the spatial forces from the gravity, wind, earthquakes and so on. To examine the performance of such structural members, the forces in all [...]

According to the material characteristic of fiber plasterboard filled with reinforced concrete, the computational macro-model basing on the multi-component element is pro [...]

This paper proposes a rocking system to limit the residual deformation of moment-resisting frames in order to improve the immediate occupancy performance and reduce the r [...]

The fiber model and the equivalent beam model are all used in this thesis. Calculations were conducted to simulate a shaking table test of a nine story 1:6 scale frame-sh [...]

In dynamic analysis of a complicated structure, the critical direction of seismic input is corresponding to the maximal response of the structure. Based on MIDAS software [...]

Recent earthquakes indicate that tunnels can not be considered as structures invulnerable to earthquakes, especially in areas crossing a fault. Under the earthquake load, [...]

The Japanese seismic design code adopts a factor Ds for chevron-braced frames to consider the seismic force reduction due to the ductility. The Ds value varies from 0.25 [...]

The objective of this research is to identify the maximum drift angle sustained by a story level during an earthquake event. To accomplish this, strain patterns in suitab [...]