Shaking table testing has been regarded as one of the most direct experimental methods to evaluate the seismic response of structural systems subjected to earthquake grou [...]

The original structural design of this case study consisted of five basement floors and a 34-story hotel tower in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The construction started in 1993 and [...]

A permanent and/or an emergency seismic retrofit technique of PC bar prestressing using corner blocks for shear critical RC columns that proposed by T. Yamakawa in 1999 w [...]

The semiactive control system applied to a nonlinear isolated bridge with a magneto-rheological (MR) damper controlled by an improved sliding mode control algorithm is su [...]

The precast and post-tensioned structures can be designed to have self-centering function that minimizes permanent drift after an earthquake. The self-centering function [...]

The semi-active control with the advantages of both passive control and active control has been shown to be a promising strategy in mitigating seismic responses for isola [...]

A total of seven full-scale specimens were constructed and tested at the Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) in Taiwan: one as-built benchmark specimen [...]