Seismic retrofit of an existing steel-reinforced concrete hospital building that features
innovative use of a continuous energy-dissipative steel column (CEDC) system is presented …

An innovative displacement-based seismic design procedure for regular planar framed
structures considering sidesway collapse prevention is presented. The method proposed …

This paper examines the stiffness configuration of strongbacks to effectively mitigate inter-
story drift concentration in buildings. This study first develops a simplified numerical model …

The economic consequences of large earthquakes require a revolutionary change in the
seismic performance objective of residential and commercial buildings. The majority of total …

This study developed a seismic design approach, which has no need of additional structural
members, to uniformly distribute the peak interstory drift ratios along building heights. The …

This paper presents a new displacement based seismic design method called Practical
Modal Pushover Design (PMPD). The method is applied to multistory one-way asymmetric …

This paper proposes an energy-based approach for estimating the yield force coefficient of
reinforced concrete (RC) frame structures. The procedure is mainly based on the energy …

This paper presents a multimodal adaptive nonlinear static method of analysis that,
differently from the nonlinear static methods suggested in seismic codes, does not require …

A displacement/damage controlled (DDC) seismic design method for composite
(steel/concrete) frames, consisting of circular concrete-filled steel tube (CFT) columns and …

Direct displacement-based design is a nonlinear static procedure and has to check the
suitability of the method against different types of ground motions namely far field, near field …