With critical lessons drawn from recent strong earthquakes, the engineering community is
appealing for a fundamental shift of the existing design philosophy for infrastructures in …

Earthquake-induced structural pounding in bridge structures has been observed in several
previous seismic events. Collisions occur at the expansion joints provided between adjacent …

This paper investigates the cogency of various impact models in capturing the seismic
pounding response of adjacent structures. The analytical models considered include the …

Past severe earthquakes indicate that structural pounding may cause considerable damage
or even lead to collapse of colliding structures if the separation distance between them is not …

This study presents a novel type of self-centering energy-dissipative restrainers [ie, SMA ring
springs (SMARS) restrainer] incorporating shape memory alloy (SMA) ring springs as the …

Previous studies of pounding responses of bridge structures to seismic loadings are usually
based on the point to point pounding assumption by using the simplified lumped mass …

In recent years there has been renewed interest on integral abutment bridges (IABs), mainly
due to their low construction and maintenance cost. Owing to the monolithic connection …

Damage of adjacent bridge structures due to relative responses, such as pounding and
unseating, have been observed in many earthquakes. The isolators in bridge structures are …

This paper addresses the effect of spatial variations of ground motion with different wave
propagation apparent velocities in soft and medium soil, and the influence of soil–structure …

This paper studies the influence of spatially varying near-source ground motions and soil–
structure interaction (SSI) on the relative response of two bridge frames. The spatial ground …