The pounding between adjacent buildings in city blocks due to earthquakes is investigated
through numerical simulations. The buildings are idealized as a series of lumped mass …

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

The response of adjacent buildings in city blocks to several strong earthquakes is analysed,
taking into account the mutual collisions, or pounding, resulting from insufficient or non …

The aim of the present paper is to analyse earthquake induced pounding between two
insufficiently separated buildings with different dynamic characteristics. In the analysis …

A three-dimensional model is developed for the simulation of the pounding response of two
or more adjacent buildings during earthquakes. The contact-impact problem is treated by the …

Historical buildings in seismically active regions are severely damaged by earthquakes,
since they certainly were not designed by the original builders to withstand seismic effects …

The response of adjacent buildings in a row, subjected to strong earthquake motions is
analyzed, taking into account their mutual pounding resulting from insufficient separation …

Earthquake-induced structural pounding may result in considerable damage or even
collapse of colliding structures during severe ground motions. The aim of the paper is to …

Adjacent buildings subjected to seismic excitations collide against each other when the
separation distance is not large enough to accommodate the displacement response of the …

This paper presents a methodology for simulating numerically in three dimensions the case
of pounding between adjacent buildings during strong earthquakes. In particular a new …