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

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

The present study develops and experimentally verifies a new type of earthquake-resilient
bracing system. The proposed pre-pressed spring self-centering energy dissipation (PS …

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 paper reports the Reliability-Based Design Optimization (RBDO) of post-tensioned self-
centering rocking steel frame structures with buckling-restrained bracing systems. The …

This paper proposes a self-centering rocking dual-core braced frame system with buckling-
restrained fuses (SC-RDC-BRF). While providing low-damage design and improved seismic …

Recently, various controlled rocking systems have been proposed in seismic design to
prevent damage concentration and to achieve self-centering against a wide range of input …

The weak story failure often occurs in steel frame structures and the collapse risk of the
frames will increase because of concentrated plastic deformation in the soft story. The work …

Conventional concentrically braced frame (CBF) systems have limited drift capacity prior to
brace buckling, and related damage leads to deterioration in strength and stiffness. CBFs …

Conventional braced frame systems exhibit limited drift capacity before brace buckling and
associated damage leads to strength and stiffness degradation. A self-centering rocking …