Seismic resilient steel structures: A review of research, practice, challenges and opportunities

C Fang, W Wang, C Qiu, S Hu, GA MacRae… - … of Constructional Steel …, 2022 - Elsevier
Steel structures have long been recognized as excellent earthquake-resistant systems.
However, this viewpoint wavered after the 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe earthquakes …

Self-centering structures against earthquakes: a critical review

C Fang, C Qiu, W Wang, MS Alam - Journal of Earthquake …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Hysteresis and damping properties of steel and polypropylene fiber reinforced recycled aggregate concrete under uniaxial low-cycle loadings

C Wang, H Wu, C Li - Construction and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
To investigate the hysteresis and damping properties of fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate
concrete (FRAC), a series of cyclic compressive tests of SF-reinforced natural aggregate …

PERPETUATE guidelines for seismic performance-based assessment of cultural heritage masonry structures

S Lagomarsino, S Cattari - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2015 - Springer
Ancient monumental masonry buildings are complex structures that were not based on an
engineered design, underwent many transformations during their life and often present lack …

Seismic assessment of rocking masonry structures

S Lagomarsino - Bulletin of earthquake engineering, 2015 - Springer
The seismic assessment of rocking masonry structures is a complex task, due to the high
sensitivity of the behavior to the characteristics of the input motion. The paper compares the …

Viscous damping in seismic design and analysis

MJN Priestley, DN Grant - Journal of earthquake engineering, 2005 - World Scientific
The characterisation of viscous damping in time history analysis is discussed in this paper.
Although it has been more common in the past to use a constant damping coefficient for …

Seismic assessment of interacting structural units in complex historic masonry constructions by nonlinear static analyses

S Degli Abbati, AM D'Altri, D Ottonelli… - Computers & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The damage occurred due to past earthquakes highlighted that the seismic behavior of
historic masonry structures characterized by an aggregation of units with an own seismic …

Self‐centering structural systems with combination of hysteretic and viscous energy dissipations

WY Kam, S Pampanin, A Palermo… - … engineering & structural …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents an innovative set of high‐seismic‐resistant structural systems termed
Advanced Flag‐Shaped (AFS) systems, where self‐centering elements are used with …

Probabilistic assessment of a light-timber frame shear wall with variable pinching under repeated earthquakes

A Aloisio, A Contento, R Alaggio… - Journal of Structural …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Pinching characterizes the hysteretic response of several structural systems. It is associated
with a reduced dissipated hysteretic energy under cyclic loading and can significantly affect …

Conceptual seismic design in performance‐based earthquake engineering

GJ O'Reilly, GM Calvi - Earthquake engineering & structural …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A principal aspect of seismic design is the verification of performance limit states, which help
ensure satisfactory behaviour within a performance‐based earthquake engineering …