This paper reviews contemporary trends in the management of the crisis phase of disasters.
It charts the recent history of emergency preparedness in the light of a basic distinction …

Structural vibration identification is an important task in civil engineering that is based on
processing measured data from structural monitoring. However, predicting the response at …

The study is based on the assumption that strong earth-quakes are associated with the
nodes that are specific structures formed around the intersections of the fault zones. The …

Non-stationary non-Gaussian random vibration problems of structures are challenging and
drawing increasing attention. In the present study, firstly, an explicit time-domain method …

Non-linear fluid viscous dampers have found widespread applications in engineering
practice for seismic mitigation of civil structures. Topology optimization has emerged as an …

The article introduces quantile deviation l as a new sensitivity measure based on the
difference between superquantile and subquantile. New global sensitivity indices based on …

Accurate focal depth estimates are essential for the correct interpretation of seismicity data in
terms of regional tectonics and earthquake hazard assessment. Published global …

Attenuation relations are developed based on information in the Iranian acceleration data
bank (IADB) containing 279 entries from about 30 seismogenic areas across the country …

Due to the inherent randomness of track irregularity excitation, the dynamic analysis of the
train-bridge system (TBS) is essentially a random vibration problem. This paper presents a …

In high-rise buildings earthquake ground motions induce bending deformation of the host
structure. Large dynamic displacements at the top of the building can be observed which in …