he Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Method [1] mimics the behaviour of a swarm of birds or insects or a school of fish that searches for food, protection, or resources. [...]

The present study aims to examine the optimal lateral stiffness design of composite steel and steel structural buildings subjected to interstorey drift constraints as wel [...]

The basic objective of this study is the assessment of the European seismic design codes and in particular of EC2 and EC8 with respect to the recommended behaviour factor [...]

Many researchers have dealt with the concept of torsion in reinforced concrete buildings, since many buildings have been damaged due to the eccentric arrangement of the v [...]

The foundation of a structure is defined as that part of the structure in direct contact with the ground, which transmits the load of the structure to the ground. There a [...]

The main scope of the present work is to propose new adaptive soft computing techniques for reducing the computational cost required for estimating the seismic response o [...]

Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) is a powerful method that involves performing a series of nonlinear response history analyses with a multiply scaled suite of ground mo [...]

A high-performance, force-based fiber beam-column element is proposed for the capacity assessment of frame structures under high shear. The proposed element is suitable f [...]

The paper focuses on the study of reinforced concrete structures that follow construction practices typical of the fifties and the sixties in Southern Europe. Both experi [...]

COMPDYN 2009, one of the thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS), is a Special Interest Conference of the In [...]