Engineers, building officials and authorities, developers, and other stakeholders have long
recognized the significance of structural health monitoring (SHM) in civil infrastructure. With …

Rapid global urbanization has led to a construction boom in high-rise buildings, and this
trend seems unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. But what are the social …

As inelastic design for wind is embraced by the engineering community, there is an
increasing demand for computational tools that enable the investigation of the nonlinear …

The windstorm resilience of a 10-story steel frame building is examined by adapting
procedures and software initially developed for performance-based seismic engineering …

The need to build tall buildings has been increasing worldwide, creating new challenges in
earthquake engineering and design. Many of the current analysis methods cannot be …

The wind design of buildings is typically based on strength provisions under ultimate loads.
This is unlike the ductility-based approach used in seismic design, which allows inelastic …

In a skyscraper construction, a great number of workers and materials must be vertically
transported to the proper positions depending on their roles. Particularly, the optimal vertical …

In the past few decades, tall buildings of 30 to over 100 storeys are becoming more common
in modern cities around the world, especially in Asia and the Middle East, according to the …

This doctoral research mainly employs a systematic procedure model to develop the
Ambient Rehabilitation Kit that can increase older adults' activity and independence level …

From humble cottages to super tall structures, human beings have progressively developed
the living and working space with time. This paper describes the origin and growth of …