Abstract: Masonry buildings represent the earlier building tradition in Egypt. The majority of the older building stock is of unreinforced masonry, some of which is worth preserving as part of the cultural heritage. Deterioration ...

Abstract: The research reported in this paper presents an attempt to improve the modeling of imperfections in steel structures using a finite-element approach with particular discretization. This approach, termed the modified ...

Abstract: There is a need for more effective seismic protection for nonlinear steel buildings using linear tuned mass dampers (TMDs) and nonlinear energy sinks (NES). This research builds on a analytical framework established focusing ...