The Great Tohoku-oki earthquake of March 11, 2011 (the ‘311’ earthquake) showed that the intensity of ground shaking for some site location has been as large or large [...]

Effective anti-fall devices of ceiling panels for an integrated ceiling system was proposed. A line-type integrated ceiling system was studied, because damage (falls of t [...]

This paper uses 3D-FEM to estimate the response of a base-isolated structure when it collides uniformly and without twisting into a retaining wall, and proposes a method [...]

Dynamic collapse analyses of a 4-story steel building frame modeled by solid elements are performed using the E-Simulator, which is a parallel finite element analysis sof [...]

Seismic response analysis is carried out for a base-isolated frame． The RC-frame members as well as the rubber bearings are discretized into hexahedral finite elements. [...]

Particle-Discretization-Scheme (PDS) is a new discretization scheme which uses a pair of basis functions that discretize a function and its derivatives using characterist [...]

The project of E-Simulator is under way at Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center (E-Defense), which belongs to National Research Institute for Earth Science and Di [...]

Seismic behaviors are evaluated when high ductile structures are supported by embedded foundation and interactive with their surrounding soil ground. Transfer functions a [...]

Microtremors and gravity anomalies were observed in the Izumo plain, Southwest Japan. Microtremors were recorded by seismic arrays (4 sites) and 3-component single-site o [...]