The sustained development of computational power continues to promote the use of
distributed inelasticity fiber frame models. The current article presents a comprehensive …

The application of the performance-based seismic design concept using alternative
formulations is presented in this work. The formulations discussed, are implemented within …

The lack of empirical data regarding earthquake damage or losses has propelled the
development of dozens of analytical methodologies for the derivation of fragility and …

Since early 1980s new families of computational methods, termed as soft computing (SC)
methods, have been proposed. SC methods are based on heuristic approaches rather than …

This study investigates the effect of ground motion duration on the seismic response of base-
isolated bridges. Three different isolation bearings are considered in this study, such as lead …

A Soft Computing (SC) based framework for the fragility assessment of 3D buildings is
proposed in this work. The computational effort required for a fragility analysis of structural …

Observations from past earthquakes demonstrated that buildings in high seismic regions
might be exposed to several aftershocks following the mainshock which can significantly …

This paper summarises the results of a numerical study on the non linear response of steel
concentric braced frames under monotonic and cyclic loads, using force-based finite …

This paper studied a robust concurrent topology optimization (RCTO) approach to design
the structure and its composite materials simultaneously. For the first time, the material …

Bayesian synergistic metamodeling (BSM), a novel technique for physical information
infused data-driven metamodeling, is proposed. A core challenge for modeling is to …