In recent years, many studies have been conducted by governmental and nongovernmental
organizations across the world attempt to better understand the effect of blast loads on …

The structure's ability to survive an earthquake may be measured in terms of the expected
state of damage of the structure after the earthquake. Damage may be quantified by using …

There is a new focus in seismic design on the performance of reinforced concrete bridges. In
a performance-oriented environment, a bridge is designed to meet specified performance …

Performance based earthquake Engineering requires robust analytical tools for obtaining
the structural response, damage assessment, as well as for performing reliability analysis …

This paper presents a nonlinear finite element analysis procedure for the seismic damage
assessment of reinforced concrete bridge columns. A computer program, named RCAHEST …

Performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) is a methodology that incorporates
desired performance levels into the design process. Performance in PBEE can be …

The ability of an intensity measure (IM) to accurately reflect the characteristics of ground
motions is of utmost importance for seismic fragility assessment. Traditional investigations …

A macromodel-based approach to enable post-event progressive collapse analysis of
reinforced concrete (RC) frame–wall structures is investigated. A simplified shear wall model …

In rigid frames, performance during major earthquakes requires plastic hinges to form at
beam-ends, and for them to have sufficient energy and damping capacity to accommodate …

A procedure is presented for assessment of the performance of reinforced concrete bridge
columns. Fourteen circular reinforced concrete bridge columns were tested under a constant …