An effective preliminary seismic assessment can provide a pre-screening of seismic capacity for a huge number of low-rise reinforced concrete (RC) buildings (e.g., school [...]

In order to observe the interaction of structural elements at the onset of collapse, four frame specimens are planned to be tested at the National Center for Research on [...]

RC short columns are prone to pure shear failure due to insufficient transverse reinforcement, but there has been very limited research found in the literature on pure sh [...]

Based on the observations made after several major earthquakes occurred in Taiwan, school building has been found most vulnerable to severe earthquake damage among all bu [...]

The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake and the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake revealed the seismically insufficient performance of the RC school buildings both in Mexico and Taiwan. Se [...]