For multi-story buildings, the standard approach to develop analytical models from earthquake records is to match the modal characteristics (i.e., modal frequencies, damping ratios and mode shapes) of the model with those ...

An important portion of pre-code building stock in Istanbul runs significant earthquake risk. Given a building class, the uncontrolled construction of pre-code buildings in the past leads to a considerable model variability ...

The purpose of this work is to identify the building response to variations in modeling parameters and assumptions for the steel mid-rise buildings. The behavior and response of 9-story building in Los Angeles are studied. ...

Earthquake resistant design of structural walls involves inhibiting brittle shear failure that would develop with the formation of plastic hinge at the base of the walls. During seismic action, recent studies demonstrate ...

Objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a hybrid isolation system for a three-storey mass concentric steel structure. The isolation system consists of 2 elastomeric bearings and 4 flat sliding bearings, ...