Seismic isolation, using nonlinear isolators, is often used to lengthen the fundamental period of vibration and to reduce inertia forces of highway bridges. Nevertheless, [...]

The purpose of this paper is to provide practitioners with further insight into spurious damping forces that can be generated in nonlinear seismic response history analys [...]

Reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall buildings are a very common type of construction worldwide. Nonlinear dynamic analyses of this type of structural systems are used mor [...]

Inelastic structural models used for performance-based design intrinsically dissipate a part of the total amount of the seismic energy imparted to the structure. To take [...]

Accurate modeling of damping in nonlinear analysis of structures in seismic loading has become a challenging issue. As an alternative to commonly used global damping mode [...]

A research program has been undertaken to better characterizing the contribution of higher modes of vibration on the bending moment and shear force demand on cantilevered [...]

A direct comparison is made between shake table and real time hybrid simulation testing techniques for a two-storey steel building structure model. Only the first-storey [...]