Strong motion instruments play an important role in Chinese strong motion observation. The historical development and current status of strong motion instruments are pre [...]

The cardinal component of the AP1000 nuclear island passive containment cooling system which is the much more different from other normal ones is the huge gravity water t [...]

Collision of structural components is one of the leading reasons which result in structure collapse during earthquakes. Because of the limitations of physical experiment, [...]

The hanging wall/footwall effects (HW/FW effects) are obvious in the near-fault ground motions of Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan, on September 21, 1999. The main cause of HW/ [...]

This paper presents the study on the acceptable risk level for city’s ability in reducing earthquake disasters. The so-called acceptable risk level refers to the thresh [...]

Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) artificial boundary condition (ABC) gains amount of recognitions because of perfectly performance in the physical wave motion simulations. T [...]

First, the development of Earthquake Disaster Reduction System is generally introduced. Then based upon a finished Earthquake Disaster Reduction System, redevelopment of [...]

Characteristics of near-fault ground motion resulting from different fault mechanisms were considered the dominant factor in developing input ground motion for structures [...]

The isoseismal of seismic intensity of Chi-Chi Earthquake is plotted based on the seismic damage to buildings subjected to this devastating earthquake. Then the study cal [...]

The objective of the paper is to present a method for modal parameter identification of structure model by using simulated earthquake response data in the shaking table e [...]