Abstract: Cantilever retaining walls are required to retain earth at a change in ground elevation. As the nonseismic design of cantilever retaining walls is well discussed elsewhere, this paper deals mainly with seismic considerations. ...

Abstract: The present work deals with the dynamic response of structures that are irregular in height, consisting of two parts, a lower part made of concrete and an upper part made of steel. Irregularity is due to different dynamic ...

Abstract: A common approach of blast-resistant design for external detonation is to design the envelope of a structure to absorb most of the applied blast load impulse, by exploiting the mechanisms of plastic energy absorption and ...

Abstract: Cladding components are critical when designing a building to resist blast loads, as they are the first to receive the applied airblast pressure. A recent trend is to design them in order to reduce the blast pressure ...