Abstract: This study is the second of two companion papers to examine the seismic collapse safety of reinforced concrete frame buildings, and examines nonductile moment frames that are representative of those built before the mid-1970s ...

Abstract: One of the challenges of assessing structural collapse performance is the appropriate selection of ground motions for use in the nonlinear dynamic collapse simulation. The ground motions should represent characteristics ...

Abstract: This study applies nonlinear dynamic analyses to assess the risk of collapse of RC special moment-frame (SMF) buildings to quantify the seismic safety implied by modern building codes. Thirty archetypical RC SMF buildings, ...