Firstly, a discrete equation of motion of free spanning submarine pipeline was derived. The spatially varying earthquake ground motions, the internal pressure and the the [...]

This paper deals with the strengthening of a school building damaged by the Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake (Magnitude 6.8) of 2004. The building locates in the seismic zone w [...]

Following the prototype of a 12-storey residential building, a 1/10 scaled model of RC short limb shear wall structure was designed and constructed. And the seismic resis [...]

Generally, the urban disaster carrying capability in economic developed cities were considered better than the developing cities for wealth and the better capability coul [...]

A series of model experiments of free spanning submarine pipeline are carried out on an underwater shaking table in the Sate Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engine [...]

In the paper, damage failure in the water-retaining monolith of Jin’an Qiao RCC dam subjected to strong ground motion is simulated by a concrete damaged plasticity mode [...]

A methodology of optimum sensor placement for structural health monitoring, which simultaneously meets the requirements of the damage identifyability and the modal differ [...]

Probabilistic loss and risk assessment models for natural hazards have become essential tools for the insurance industry in recent years. They are not only used to determ [...]