Buckling restrained braces (BRBs) have become a common and economic form of concentric bracing over the past decade. Used as the primary lateral load resisting system in [...]

Vertical and horizontal regularity provisions in the current New Zealand seismic design standard, NZS 1170.5 (SNZ 2004) are based on overseas codes. These regularity limi [...]

Modern structures are designed with a sacrificial design principle that values life safety at the expense of energy-absorbing structural damage. The significant long term [...]

Single story structures with different in-plane wall strength and stiffness, rotational inertia, and out-of-plane wall stiffness are subjected to impulse ground motions t [...]

In this paper the efficacy of various ground motion intensity measures (IM’s) in the prediction of spatially distributed engineering demand parameters (EDP’s) within [...]