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 …

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 …

Rocking structural systems have been proposed as a promising solution for designing
resilient building structures. These low-damage systems can prevent significant economic …

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 …

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 …

This research presents a novel aseismic system, the hybrid self-centering rocking core
(HSRC) system, for obtaining better seismic resilience in steel buildings. Two hybrid self …

A new type of self-centering friction damper using Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) bars is
developed. The proposed damper is composed of a friction energy dissipation system and a …

Abstract The Self-centering Energy-absorbing Dual Rocking Core system (denoted as the
SEDRC system) is a newly developed high-performance steel lateral force-resisting system …

A new hybrid shape memory alloy (SMA)-based damper was developed to address two
major challenges for SMA-based seismic control devices:(i) insufficient force capacity for …

This paper presents an experimental and analytical study on the low-damage performance
of a steel rocking column-base joint equipped with an asymmetric friction connection (AFC) …