Structures designed in accordance with even the most modern buildings codes are
expected to sustain damage during a severe earthquake; however; these structures are …

Mass timber is an attractive and sustainable alternative structural engineering material to
concrete and steel. Despite successful midrise to high-rise timber building projects around …

Base-rocking systems have been proposed as a way to limit the seismic forces experienced
by a structure without accepting structural damage. However, structural forces can increase …

Controlled rocking steel frames have been proposed as an efficient way to avoid the
structural damage and residual deformations that are expected in conventional seismic force …

This paper proposes a self-centering rocking dual-core braced frame system with buckling-
restrained fuses (SC-RDC-BRF). While providing low-damage design and improved seismic …

In conventional eccentrically braced frames (EBFs), earthquake input energy is mainly
dissipated by plastic deformation of link beams. However, the plastic deformation of link …

Most traditional structures designed according to current seismic code provisions will sustain
important residual deformations after a design-level earthquake. In many cases, such …

Conventional concentrically braced frame (CBF) systems have limited drift capacity prior to
brace buckling, and related damage leads to deterioration in strength and stiffness. CBFs …

This paper explores the use of sliding friction dampers (SFDs) as dissipative floor
connectors to mitigate higher mode effects and earthquake‐induced absolute acceleration …

Modern self-centering controlled rocking (SC-CR) systems are capable of reducing residual
drift after severe earthquakes by swaying on their bases and concentrating damage in …