Earthquake-induced pounding between buildings has been the subject of numerous
numerical and experimental studies in the resent years. The phenomenon may cause …

Earthquakes are the most unpredictable damaging loads which can affect civil engineering
structures. Due to insufficient separation distance between adjacent structures with different …

Earthquake-induced pounding between adjacent buildings has been identified as one of the
reasons for substantial damage or even total collapse of colliding structures. A major reason …

Numerous urban seismic vulnerability studies have recognized pounding between adjacent
structures as one of the main risks for neighbouring buildings due to the restricted …

Structural interactions between adjacent, insufficiently separated buildings have been
repeatedly observed during damaging ground motions. This phenomenon, known as the …

Nowadays, the high level of urbanization forces the engineers to design closely-separated
structures and to take into account many factors influencing their response, including …

Interactions between adjacent, insufficiently separated buildings have been repeatedly
observed during major earthquakes. This phenomenon, known as the earthquake-induced …

Structural pounding has been found to have a significant influence on the dynamic behavior
of building structures under earthquake excitations. This phenomenon is more probable …

Pounding of neighbouring construction of structures due to seismic excitation increases the
damage of structural components or even causes collapse of structures. Among the possible …

The excitation angle or angle of incidence is the angle in which the horizontal seismic
components are applied with respect to the principal structural axes during a time history …