Infill walls in reinforced concrete framed buildings are often constructed up to a limited height of columns to provide more lighting and ventilation especially in the co [...]

Rapidly growing worldwide population is triggering ever increasing demands for housing, industrial sites, civil engineering infrastructure. This is putting an enormous st [...]

The seismic vulnerability studies for the San Francisco Transition Structure (SFTS) of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) involved global structural dynamic analyse [...]

Pond ash (fly ash) obtained from thermal power plants or similar plants which use the coal as a fuel, has spread over a large area of land in the country like India. A ch [...]

The civil engineering structures are invariably exposed to a variety of natural hazards such as strong winds, earthquakes and water waves which induce dynamic effects. Of [...]

A case history is presented for soil-structure interaction (SSI) analyses of the San Francisco Transition Structure (SFTS), a massive rigid structure which is part of the [...]