Abstract: Current analysis and design procedures for light‐frame wood buildings do not give consideration to the complex three‐dimensional structural response of the buildings. A full‐scale single‐story wood house is constructed and ...

Abstract: The objective of the work of this paper was to investigate analytically the feasibility and advantages of applying various combinations of steel jacket retrofit measures developed for single-column bent bridges to multicolumn ...

Abstract: Interstate 90 crosses Mercer Slough near Bellevue, Washington. Mercer Slough is filled with a very soft, thick peat deposit. Very little is currently known about the dynamic behavior of such soils or the seismic response ...

Abstract: This paper describes an experimental study of the seismic performance of cantilever-reinforced concrete masonry shear walls. As part of a research project on displacement-based design of masonry structures, 30 cantilever ...