Abstract: The assessment of safety for structures subjected to earthquake excitation is a time-variant reliability problem whose practical solution, when the structure behaves inelastically and uncertainty in the mechanical parameters ...

Abstract: An approximate method is proposed for seismic design of reinforced concrete (RC) structures to meet multiple structural performance requirements expressed in terms of exceedance probabilities. The method is approximate in ...

Abstract: A method is presented for the evaluation of the seismic fragility function of realistic structural systems. The method is based on a preliminary, limited, simulation involving nonlinear dynamic analyses performed to establish ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental investigation of the effect of load path on force-displacement response, damage patterns, and failure modes of slender lightly reinforced concrete (RC) columns. A review of available ...

Abstract: Response sensitivity is needed for simulation applications such as optimization, reliability, and system identification. The exact response sensitivity of material nonlinear beam–column elements is derived for the displacement- ...