Abstract: Apart from the anticipated damage to unreinforced stone and masonry chimneys, some disturbing results were observed in the June 28, 1992 earthquakes; namely, the unsatisfactory performance of recently built residential ...

Abstract: A numerical procedure for determining the hysteretic behavior of axially loaded, pin‐ended bracing members is outlined. The relationships between axial loads and deformations are computed recognizing the different states ...

Abstract: In many dynamic analysis procedures the size of the problem is curtailed by truncation of the modes selected for study. A preferable approach in the case of a structure such as a large space frame is to identify and include ...