We present a methodology for the evaluation of the effect of scaling when Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) is performed. The median capacity curve of IDA is compared to [...]

COMPDYN 2013, one of the thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS), is a Special Interest Conference of the In [...]

The objective of this paper is to study the influence of the rigidity of joints on the nonlinear dynamic response of steel structures under seismic excitation. We conside [...]

Structural optimization problems are characterized by various objective and constraint functions, which are generally non-linear functions of the design variables. These [...]

We propose a new approach for the performance-based seismic design of buildings using a deterministic and a reliability-based structural optimization framework. To overco [...]

With the spectacular increase of computing power and the advances in simulation methods, it is now possible to investigate realistic geotechnical problems in the framewor [...]

Shear deformations may considerably affect the capacity and the failure mode of reinforced concrete members. Simplified beam-column models typically are not able to captu [...]

A number of optimization algorithms have been used in structural design optimization in the past, ranging from gradient-based mathematical algorithms to probabilistic-bas [...]

COMPDYN 2011 is one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) www.eccomas.org and a Special Interest Co [...]

Evaluation of the behavior of structures composed of single phase material is quite straightforward, especially for the case of static loading. For the evaluation of a po [...]