Abstract: Composite shear walls are widely used to resist the lateral load in high rise-buildings nowadays; however, prior experimental tests have shown high damages and residual drifts at the plastic zone region. At present time, ...

Abstract: Implementing a low-damage design (LDD) approach to improve the seismic behavior of existing RC bridge bents as a retrofit strategy is the main focus of the present study. Experimental and numerical studies were carried out ...

Abstract: Nonintegrated multicolumn bents are the common type of substructure in existing bridges. Among all possible seismic defects in their behavior, capbeam–column joint behavior has not properly been acknowledged so far. Although ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a mathematical framework for optimal retrofit and recovery strategies of bridge networks. The pre-earthquake and postearthquake management of the highway systems is addressed considering performance ...