The research findings made in recent years now mean that the prospect of accounting for soil-foundation-structure interaction within seismic design is becoming a viable r [...]

The recently developed PEER Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) approach can be used to provide building owners and stakeholders with loss estimates, on which [...]

This paper examines the influence of different definitions of demand parameters for the seismic assessment of ductile RC frames. Fragility functions used in the performan [...]

The adequate consideration of acceleration demands in the seismic design of acceleration-sensitive nonstructural components, although challenging, has shown to be a key a [...]

Current international design codes impose limits on the P-delta ratio, which appear to have been set to ensure a minimum reloading stiffness during cyclic response and wi [...]

In this paper, a number of 3-dimensional nonlinear finite element models of two T-shaped walls coupled by slab are created using 2-dimensional elements, varying in each o [...]

The behaviour of T-section walls in the direction parallel to the web is characterised by different strength and stiffness in the two possible loading directions, with th [...]

In this paper, the behaviour of T-shaped walls is determined by examining the relative effect of the web-flange ratio, the reinforcement percentage and the axial load on [...]