Abstract: Performance-based seismic design (PBSD) is considered by many to be the next generation of design philosophy that focuses on the system performance of a structure during earthquake loading. For steel and concrete structures, ...

Abstract: This paper presents the method and analysis of a study whose objective was to numerically examine the effect that nonstructural finishes and nonstructural partition walls would have on the performance-based seismic design ...

Abstract: As a new high-strength material, carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) cable provided an opportunity for bridge structures to achieve span limits that were not possible or economical in the past. Based on existing conceptual ...

Abstract: The dynamic performance of a woodframe structure is examined through the qualitative correlation between the transient interstory drift and the observed damage following a series of full-scale shake-table tests. The structure ...

Abstract: Performance-based seismic design (PBSD) of wood frame structures has been only preliminarily investigated by a handful of researchers around the world and is currently under development in the United States as well as other ...

Abstract: The experimental seismic responses of a full-scale two-story light-frame wood townhouse building, designed to modern U.S. engineered seismic design requirements, were compared against the predictions of a new software ...