Abstract: Although soft-story mechanisms are generally undesirable for the seismic response of building structures, they provide potential benefits caused by the isolating effect they produce for the stories located above. In this ...

Abstract: This paper studies a dynamic testing method called dynamic displacement testing (DDT). Similar procedures to this method have been used in the past to perform experimental testing; however, the procedure was never acknowledged ...

Abstract: An innovative discontinuum-based micromodeling approach, the Applied Element Method, is used in this work to investigate explicitly potential failure mechanisms that might have contributed to the collapse of the Morandi ...