Post-earthquake damages investigation in past and recent earthquakes has illustrated that
the building structures are vulnerable to severe damage and/or collapse during moderate to …

Taipei City, with its high seismicity, soft soil condition, and many tall buildings without proper
seismic separation, is vulnerable to seismic pounding destruction similar to that occurred in …

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

Investigations of past and recent earthquake damage have illustrated that the building
structures are vulnerable to severe damage and/or collapse during moderate to strong …

Valuable insights on the problem of seismic pounding have been obtained recently from
analytical studies. So far, the proposed analytical models have not been validated …

Abstract Tension‐Only Concentrically Braced Frames (TOCBF) exhibit deteriorating pinched
hysteretic behaviour during strong earthquakes. Slender braces transit between an elastic …

This paper analyses earthquake ground motion spatial variation effects on relative linear
elastic response of adjacent building structures. It studies the relative importance of ground …

Seismic poundings between inadequately separated buildings have been observed in most
previous major earthquakes. Pounding usually caused local damage around the impacting …

Collisions between adjacent structures due to insufficient separation gaps have been
witnessed in almost every major earthquake since the 1960's. Although many analytical …

The most straightforward method to mitigate seismic pounding damage to adjacent
structures is to provide adequate separation distance between them to completely preclude …