期刊: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2021; 50 (13)
This study aims to assess, in a probabilistic manner, the effect of seismic excitation direction on the performance of a 638 m-long, 12 span prestress......
期刊: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2021; 50 (13)
Existing control algorithms for seismic shake table tests (STTs) generally exhibit limitations such as poor acceleration tracking for displacement con......
期刊: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2021; 50 (10)
Earthquake-induced permanent displacements of slopes are generally evaluated through the simplified sliding block analyses of a singular coherent mass......
期刊: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2021; 50 (10)
Self-centering energy dissipative (SCED) braces are designed to limit the maximum story drifts in buildings during earthquakes and to nearly eliminate......
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Smart materials such as shape memory alloys (SMAs) have unique material properties that can potentially mitigate structural damage against earthquake.......
期刊: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2021; 50 (12)
This paper proposes a hybrid seismic isolation system composed of geotechnical (a layer of sand or gravel as foundation soil) and structural isolation......
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The concepts of optimal hybrid control strategies in the time and frequency domains are proposed herein. The time-domain optimal hybrid control (also ......
期刊: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2021; 50 (10)
A new design philosophy termed "rocking isolation" has been advocated in recent studies on soil-structure interaction (SSI) toward utilizing nonlinear......
期刊: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2021; 50 (11)
Existing large-scale electrohydraulic shaking tables (EHSTs) have limited frequency bandwidth because of the capacity of electrohydraulic systems. Her......
期刊: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2021; 50 (11)
Freestanding nonstructural objects are very common in various infrastructure systems, but their dynamic properties with variations in the center of gr......
期刊: EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS, 2021; 50 (12)
The increasing need to reduce damage and downtime in modern buildings has led to the development of a low-damage design philosophy, where the earthqua......
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During the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan, the Daikai subway station suffered total collapse, which made the research on the seismic failure mechanism ......
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In a conventional wall frame system, shear walls typically exhibit less deformation capacity under earthquakes than the frame. In this study, an innov......
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The expansion of the Shanghai metro grid leads to a growing demand for underground stations. This paper studies the seismic performance of a typical c......
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A new time-frequency modulating function with a novel equivalent average-intensity envelope based on the instantaneous energy is proposed to simulate ......