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 …

Structures designed in accordance with even the most modern buildings codes are
expected to sustain damage during a severe earthquake; however; these structures are …

In this study, we propose a new seismic control device, tuned viscous mass damper (TVMD),
for building systems. We give a detailed description of an apparent mass amplifier using a …

Six months after the 4 September 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake, a Mw 6.2
Christchurch (Lyttelton) aftershock struck Christchurch on the 22 February 2011. This …

This study presents a novel hybrid self-centering system aiming to overcome critical
shortcomings identified in the existing self-centering solution. Two types of hybrid brace …

The hybrid self-centering braced frame (HSBF) is an emerging seismic resilient structural
system with the capacity of controlling peak inter-story drifts and floor accelerations and …

The focus of this paper is the structural response of multi-story structures to near-fault ground
motions, and whether structural response is dominated by the ground motion pulses present …

Unbonded prestressed reinforced concrete (UBPRC) column has attracted the attention of
many researchers in bridge seismic design because of its small residual displacement …

Concrete bridge piers with conventional steel reinforcing bars are vulnerable to strong
earthquakes by inducing significant residual deformations, which substantially weakens the …

A new earthquake resilient ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) bridge column was
proposed and fabricated with precast segmental construction. The bottom segment was …