Buckling-restrained braces(BRBs)have shown their capability to provide building structures with stiffness,strength,and ductility.Estimating the seismic drifts of buckling-restrained braced frames(BRBFs)is an important...
Supported by:Research Grant of the University of Tabriz under Grant No.1105。
In this paper,the potential of utilizing improved metaheuristic approaches in optimal design of building structures is concerned.In this regard,the drift-tribe-charged system search algorithm is proposed that the posi...
Period equations provided by seismic codes are generally derived by calibration with recorded period data of buildings located in high seismicity regions.These period-equations do not account for either the design lev...
Seismic codes estimate the maximum displacements of building structures under the design-basis earthquakes by amplifying the elastic displacements under the reduced seismic design forces with a deflection amplificatio...
supported by the Eurasian University Network for International Cooperation in Earthquake(EU-NICE)
Reinforced concrete(RC) buildings in Nepal are constructed with RC frames and masonry infill panels. These structures exhibit a highly non-linear inelastic behavior resulting from the interaction between the panels ...
Flat slab system is becoming widely popular for multistory buildings due to its several advantages. However, the performance of flat slab buildings under earthquake loading is unsatisfactory due to their vulnerability...
National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.51478117,51508295,51478231;the Shandong Province Taishan Scholar Advanced Disciplinary Talent Group Project
A building retrofitted with wing walls in the bottom story, which was damaged during the 2008 M8.0 Wenchuan earthquake in China, is introduced and a corresponding 1/4 scale wing wall-frame model was subjected to shake...
Ministry of Education and the Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan Under the ATU plan and Grants No. NSC 95-2625-Z-005-009
In this paper, an optimal H∞ control algorithm was applied to the design of an active tendon system installed at the first story of a multi-story building to reduce its interstory drift due to earthquake excitations....
the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Under Project No. HKU 7023/99E and HKU 7002/00E;The Ministry of Science and Technology of PRC and The Bureau of Science and Technology of Guangzhou Under Project No. 2004CCA03300 and No.2004Z1-E0051
This paper outlines a methodology to assess the seismic drift of reinforced concrete buildings with limited structural and geotechnical information. Based on the latest and the most advanced research on predicting pot...