Abstract: Wind data from Weather Bureau Airport Stations (WBAS) at Seattle, Wash, and Baltimore, Md., from 1959 to 1979 are used to verify previous analytical results of the effect of wind direction on structural reliability. The ...

Abstract: The effect of wind direction on structural reliability is studied as a problem of a vector wind force process outcrossing a structural resistance boundary which may be direction‐dependent. When the structural orientation ...

Abstract: Widespread occurrence of brittle beam-to-column connection fracture has been discovered in steel frame buildings after 1994 Northridge and 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquakes. To investigate the effects of connection failure ...

Abstract: The redundancy of building structures under earthquake ground motion attracted more attention after the 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe earthquakes. Very little, however, is known on redundancy under stochastic dynamic loads ...

Abstract: A method is presented for determining the probabilities of a structure sustaining various levels of damage due to seismic activity during its lifetime. Uncertainties in the loading and the structural response analysis are ...

Abstract: A method for evaluating structural damage of reinforced concrete buildings under random earthquake excitations is proposed. Extensive damage analysis of SDF systems and typical MDF reinforced concrete buildings were ...

Abstract: In NEHRP 2003, a new mechanism-based reliability/redundancy factor,

Abstract: For performance evaluation of structural systems under seismic loads, accurate modeling of structural component and system response behavior in the nonlinear range is required. In this study, the differential-equation-based ...

Abstract: Current research trends in residential construction focus on the development of performance-based design methodologies for wood structures. As one key prerequisite to the implementation of such design concept, the performance ...