Abstract: Reasonably simple yet accurate estimation of inelastic displacement demands on bridges during strong ground shaking is a critical step in the structural design process. Current code methods rely on the equal displacement ...

Abstract: An important consideration in the design of structures for seismic effects is residual displacement. However, few design specifications have residual displacement criteria. As performance-based design gains popularity, the ...

Abstract: With the continuing development of displacement-based and performance-based seismic design principles in the bridge engineering community comes the need to address issues that have historically been omitted from, or else ...

Abstract: Early in the morning of March 3, 2020, a storm system producing multiple tornadoes passed through middle Tennessee. One of the tornadoes—touching down in Cookeville and Putnam County—was classified as an EF4 with winds of ...

Abstract: The commonly-used viscous damping approach, Rayleigh damping, has been shown to develop excessive damping forces in the nonlinear response history analysis (RHA) of fixed-base structural systems. These forces are referred ...