With critical lessons drawn from past major earthquakes, the engineering community is
appealing for a fundamental shift in the existing design philosophy for structures in seismic …

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

This state-of-the-art review provides an overview of the evolution of self-centering structures
from early historical structures that inherently exhibited a recentering response to modern …

This paper focuses on a new lateral-force-resisting system–the Self-Centering Energy-
Absorbing Rigid Core system (denoted as the SCENARIO system)-for achieving enhanced …

The self-centering energy-dissipative (SCED) brace is an innovative cross brace for
buildings that provides a nonlinear response with good energy dissipation and postyield …

This paper presents a comparative study of the seismic performance of base-rocking and bi-
rocking walls with different location of the rocking section systems. To this aim, structures of …

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 research focuses on the development and validation tests of a novel seismic force-
resisting system named as the Self-centering Energy-absorbing Dual Rocking Core …

Severe earthquakes possess formidable destructive potential, leading to substantial
damage, widespread disruptions, and tragic loss of life. In response, researchers and …

This paper aims to propose self-centering companion spines with friction spring dampers
(denoted as SCS) for obtaining better post-earthquake resilience in steel building structures …