Abstract: The role of soil–structure interaction (SSI) on the response of seismically isolated bridges is studied. A generic bilinear hysteretic model is utilized to model the isolation system. The behavior of the pier is assumed ...

Abstract: Rigorous numerical analyses are conducted to study the effects of bidirectional lateral cyclic loading on the hysteretic response of stocky circular thin-walled steel columns. Four unidirectional and eight bidirectional ...

Abstract: A rate-independent cyclic plasticity model for structural steels with a yield plateau is proposed. The model couples nonlinear kinematic hardening with a memory surface in the plastic strain space, to account for the ...

Abstract: In many water quality model applications to real networks, it has been observed that the chlorine concentrations at nodes on the secondary pipes with long residence times do not compare well with the model predictions. ...