Current detailed seismic evaluation methods are based on numerical approaches. However,
there is a need to improve the reliability of such evaluations especially in many situations …

Metal building systems represent a significant percentage of low-rise construction in the US
Despite this, seismic provisions in the building code use data from studies on mid-rise …

An experimental program of nine steel deck roof diaphragm specimens was carried out to
assess their seismic characteristics. The dynamically loaded diaphragms were able to …

To help engineers calculate design seismic loads, the 2005 edition of the National Building
Code of Canada provides empirical equations to estimate the fundamental lateral period of …

ABSTRACT A two‐phase research program has been undertaken to investigate
fundamental natural periods of concentrically braced frames (CBFs) designed according to …

Metal buildings account for over 40% of low-rise construction in the US. Despite this,
predictive fundamental period equations that were obtained empirically for mid-rise …

This thesis documents an investigation of the use of the roof diaphragm flexibility in the
seismic design and analysis procedure of single-storey steel buildings designed otherwise …

Single-storey steel buildings in Canada are generally designed with a steel roof deck
diaphragm to resist and transfer lateral loads to the vertical bracing system. Current …

Despite all the damages encountered during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 12-storey
reinforced-concrete Digicel building behaved well, sustaining only reparable damages …

Modern building codes such as the NBCC 2005 require the use of capacitybased seismic
design principles in which a ductile energy dissipating element, typically the bracing …