Abstract: A previous study using a scaled-down model of single-room masonry structures tested on a shaking table has shown that strength may be considerably increased by tying up the masonry walls by polypropylene (PP) bands, wrapping ...

Abstract: Depleting timber resources has generated interest in bamboo, a traditional sustainable building material of the tropics. However, dearth of strength data has been a major hindrance in its engineered application. The present ...

Abstract: Coastal areas of the Indian subcontinent are familiar with aftermaths of severe tropical cyclones. Nonengineered structures of the common people are major casualties of these natural disasters. The present paper documents ...

Abstract: This study examined the inelastic seismic behavior of low-rise systems with varying story eccentricities (i.e., general class of eccentric systems). Seismic demands of such systems were found to be potentially high relative ...

Abstract: Extreme seismic vulnerability of bidirectionally eccentric structural systems such as street corner buildings has been demonstrated repeatedly during past severe earthquakes. Inelastic range response of such structural ...

Abstract: Buildings with asymmetry and various classes of irregularity are found to be a major cause for collapses of structure, property loss, and casualties during earthquakes. Such observations have been documented from previous ...

Abstract: Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings exhibited extreme vulnerability during past earthquakes, although these are shelters for a majority population in many earthquake-prone developing countries. Most of the current ...