Recently, very strong vertical ground motions have been recorded during several earthquakes and have been considered to be critical to structure designs. Similar to horiz [...]

According to the current Chinese code and technical specification, some frame structures with rectangular columns and specially shaped columns are designed respectively b [...]

To consider the influence of substructure’s nonlinear driving force on primary structure, an improved dynamic analytic model containing dynamic stiffness is presented, [...]

This paper evaluates the seismic response of ground-level cylindrical steel water storage tanks, which were designed under the American Water Works Association standards [...]

Performance based seismic design (PBSD) is a design paradigm which is beginning to be applied for steel and concrete structures. The ability of PBSD to incorporate variou [...]

Near field ground motion in a shallow basin from strong earthquake occurred on a blind fault beneath is synthesized in this paper. A hybrid source model is adopted, which [...]

A method to develop a hierarchy of explicit recursion formulas for numerical simulation in irregular grids for scalar wave equations is presented and then is used to cons [...]

Aiming at the low horizontal lateral stiffness and restoring force, taking advantage of hyperelastic property of shape memory alloys (SMA for short), a new type of SMA wi [...]

Elastoplasticity displacement time history response of the structure under seismic force is analyzed by nonlinear dynamic finite element method. The damage index of membe [...]