Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the response of the conventionally designed new Olive View Medical Center (OVMC) building at 16 km from the epicenter of the January 17, 1994 Northridge, California earthquake (

Abstract: In this two‐part paper, responses of two, adjacent, seven‐story buildings in Norwalk, California, to the Whittier‐Narrows, Calif. earthquake of Oct. 1, 1987 are studied. Building A, instrumented according to code ...

Abstract: Presented in this part of the two‐part paper is a study of the relations between earthquake motions recorded from two, adjacent, seven‐story buildings, from a downhole below the foundation of one of the buildings and from ...

Abstract: Spectral analyses and system identification techniques are used to analyze a set of acceleration response records obtained during the October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake

Abstract: A method to estimate the center of rigidity of buildings by using vibration recordings is presented. The method is based on the criterion that the coherence of translational motions with the rotational motion is minimum ...

Abstract: The seismic performance of steel moment-framed buildings has been of particular interest since brittle fractures were discovered at the beam–column connections in a number of buildings following the M 6.7 Northridge ...