Cities are syntheses of many individual buildings and infrastructures that support the function of the built environment. Current seismic design strategies focus on indiv [...]

The framed-tube structure consists of rigid moment frames in the perimeters and floor-system which provides lateral-supports to prevent perimeter column buckling. When pe [...]

Typically steel moment-resisting frame structures in the United States, similar to many super-high-rise framed-tube structures being constructed in Japan, have stiff beam [...]

Recently, the number of monitoring reports of seismically isolated building is gradually increasing. In this paper, a long-term dense monitoring system of seismically iso [...]

A new type of seismic isolation system – called the core-suspended isolation system (CSI) – has been recently developed and implementation completed in the first buil [...]

Steel Special Moment Resisting Frames (SMRFs) with Viscous Damping Devices (VDDs) have been used for design of many buildings, resulting in a reliable and cost effective [...]

On 12 May 2008, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck China, approximately 80 km west of Chengdu in the Sichuan (Wenchuan) province and 1550 km southwest of Beijing. This eve [...]

The majority of these studies have tested isolated braces or simple subassemblies which neglect the influence of the framing components and the gusset-plate on the system [...]

It has been strongly requested in highly seismic areas to consider not only structural performances but also maintenances of aseismic members in design procedure. Base-is [...]