Abstract: This paper illustrates the design of a ten‐story, single bay, earthquake‐resistant friction‐braced steel frame using a computer‐aided design system called DELIGHT.STRUCT. Linear and nonlinear time history analyses are built ...

Abstract: This paper explores the use of energy concepts in the analysis of base-isolated structures subject to severe earthquake ground motions. We formulate the energy balance equations in moving- and fixed-base coordinate frames ...

Abstract: Despite the well-known benefits of physical units, matrices, and matrix algebra in engineering computations, most engineering analysis packages are essentially dimensionless. They simply hold the engineer responsible for ...

Abstract: This paper presents a framework for the semiautomated development of textual requirements for the building construction industry, a domain in which quality of textual requirements has a direct bearing on the avoidance of ...