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 …

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 …

The hybrid self‐centering braced frames (HSBFs) with shape memory alloy‐based braces
(SMABs) and viscous dampers (VDs) are an emerging structural system developed for …

Partially self-centering behavior has been considered a promising and beneficial solution for
achieving seismic resilience of building structures in the life-cycle span. This paper aims to …

The self-centering braced frames (SCBFs) have been widely investigated for enhancing the
building structures' post-earthquake repairability by reducing or even eliminating the …

Iron-based shape memory alloys (SMAs), especially Fe–Mn–Si alloys, are materials that
have great potential in civil engineering structures, but their application is still in a pioneer …

Stimulus-responsive materials are able to response to a particular stimulus, such as, heat,
chemical, and light. As such, they are smarter and more intelligent than ordinary materials …

A hybrid self-centering braced frame equipped with shape memory alloy-based self-
centering braces (SMA-SCBs) and viscous dampers is proposed to achieve enhanced …

This paper proposes a new type of self-centering (SC) damper which exploits the shape
memory alloy (SMA) bolts and variable friction mechanism, termed the SMA slip friction …

We extend a recently developed class of uniaxial symmetric rate-independent models to
simulate complex asymmetric mechanical hysteresis phenomena. The main features of the …