Many medium-rise and high-rise reinforced concrete buildings were damaged during the 2010 Maule Chile earthquake. For rectangular reinforced concrete walls that are witho [...]

A lot of governments in Japan updated the tsunami hazard map since the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake. Kushiro City is located in the coastal area of col [...]

In these 20 years after Kobe Earthquake in Japan, seismic devices such as rubber bearing, seismic damper and other additional devices have been rapidly developed and they [...]

Earthquakes are caused by a sudden release of energy from the movement between tectonic plates; besides geological faults and volcanism. As Peru is located in a high seis [...]

This paper proposes a new seismic response control system using a block and tackle (hereinafter, referred to as a movable pulley damper system) developed especially for h [...]

Many seismic codes have suggested that the response spectrum should be specified at bedrock level, and then, the calculated free field response spectrum from bedrock will [...]

Measuring the deformation of structural members is fundamental to evaluating the performance of structures. As an effective and practical method for measuring the deforma [...]

Microtremor array technique was a method to estimate S-wave velocity profiles by using dispersions of surface waves from microtremor array records. Rayleigh waves in vert [...]

A Bayesian framework for model class selection of ARX models is developed and applied to actual earthquake response data obtained by the structural health monitoring syst [...]

This paper aims to present a methodology to evaluate the seismic vulnerability of Reinforced Concrete (R/C) existing buildings, based on Capacity Spectrum Method (CSM). T [...]