Abstract: Dynamic response of structures subjected to earthquake-induced base excitations are often simplified by ignoring the tilt components of ground motion. However, close to the earthquake source, tilting of the ground surface ...

Abstract: Current design provisions comprise broadly described information for the detailing of reinforcement around the openings of pierced shear walls. To address this deficiency, the load capacity and stress distribution around ...

Abstract: A new pushover analysis procedure derived through adaptive modal combinations (AMC) is proposed for evaluating the seismic performance of building structures. The methodology offers a direct multimode technique to estimate ...

Abstract: According to the regulatory building codes in the United States (e.g., 2010 California Building Code), at least two horizontal ground motion components are required for three-dimensional (3D) response history analysis (RHA) ...

Abstract: The earthquake engineering profession is increasingly utilizing nonlinear response history analyses (RHA) to evaluate seismic performance of existing structures and proposed designs of new structures. One of the main ...

Abstract: Earthquake engineering is increasingly using nonlinear response history analysis (RHA) to demonstrate the performance of structures. This rigorous method of analysis requires selection and scaling of ground motions appropriate ...

Abstract: We used waveforms from the 2018 MW 7.1 Anchorage earthquake and six selected aftershocks, ranging from MW 4.2 to 5.7, to quantify site properties including shear-wave velocity profile, predominant frequencies, borehole ...

Abstract: Nonlinear response history analysis has been a powerful tool in performance-based earthquake engineering for validating the proposed design of new structures or evaluating existing ones. When it is applied to structural ...