Abstract: Tall reinforced concrete (RC) building designs must satisfy serviceability stiffness criteria in terms of maximum lateral displacement and interstory drift. It is therefore important to assess accurately the effects of ...

Abstract: The design of tall reinforced concrete buildings must satisfy serviceability criteria for lateral drift. It is therefore important to accurately assess the lateral deflection of a structure to account for the nonlinear ...

Abstract: This paper presents an effective numerical reliability-based optimization technique for the design of base-isolated concrete building structures under spectrum loading. Attempts have been made to automate the integrated ...

Abstract: Due to the complex nature of a modern tall building consisting of thousands of structural members, the traditional trial-and-error design method is generally highly iterative and very time-consuming. This paper presents ...