Abstract: This study presents a design method for the seismic retrofit and rehabilitation of steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) with composite steel–concrete beams using the minimal-disturbance arm damper (MDAD). The purpose is ...

Abstract: This paper presents a damage-evaluation method that estimates the damage level of buildings using ambient vibration measurement and a seismic interferometry technique. A new index, named slowness change and which directly ...

Abstract: Structural monitoring systems installed on cable-supported bridges have the potential to generate large data repositories from which a deeper understanding of bridge behavior can be obtained. The core focus of this study ...

Abstract: This paper presents a simplified method of deriving a novel damage curve to quantify the damage extent of seismically induced beam fractures in steel moment-resisting frames. The damage curve expresses a damage index as a ...

Abstract: This paper presents a simplified method of deriving a novel damage curve to quantify the damage extent of seismically induced beam fractures in steel moment-resisting frames. The damage curve expresses a damage index as a ...

Abstract: The performance of seismic braced frames can become compromised due to premature local buckling–induced fracture of the hollow structural section (HSS) steel braces. A strategy to delay the fracture of the braces is to ...

Abstract: This paper presents a time-varying model-based method for estimating earthquake-induced displacement responses of building structures using limited acceleration data. First, a time-varying model which considers the variability ...