This paper summarizes the research on non-structural elements and building contents being
conducted at University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Since the 2010-2011 series of …

Nonstructural components typically are not designed for seismic loads, yet their behavior
can affect the postearthquake building functionality significantly. Nonstructural damage …

The 2017 Puebla, Mexico, earthquake event led to significant damage in many buildings in
Mexico City. In the months following the earthquake, civil engineering students conducted …

Vertical ground motions may increase irregularity of sliding response, while the subsequent
impact on the sliding fragility of building contents is not clear. Moreover, seismic risk of …

This paper is concerned with the inclusion of epistemic uncertainties in component fragility
functions used in performance-based earthquake engineering. Conventionally fragility …

This paper reviews the existing studies related to seismic demand and experimental
investigation of the nonstructural building curtain wall (CW). Being treated as a nonstructural …

Motivated by the demand of seismic protection of museum collections and development of
performance-based seismic design guidelines, this paper investigates the seismic fragility of …

Building contents proved challenging in performance-based earthquake engineering
frameworks because of the data scarcity. Despite the content seismic losses in the past two …

This paper quantifies sliding of contents in simple elastic structures subject to ground motion
excitation. Contents sliding spectra due to impulse records are developed as a function of …

The seismic damage to different categories of nonstructural elements is known to be
sensitive to various engineering demand parameters (EDPs), including maximum inter-story …