Abstract: This paper explores the seismic fragility curves for gravity dams with or without ground motion vertical component within the context of performance-based earthquake engineering. Structural analyses are performed using ...

Abstract: For several decades, asperities of nominally flat rough surfaces were considered to be points higher than their immediate neighbors. Recently, it has been recognized that this model is incorrect. ...

Abstract: The asperities of rough surfaces have long been considered to be points higher than their immediate neighbors. Based on this concept, theories were developed for quantitatively understanding the ...