Abstract: A community’s resilience relies on the resilience of its infrastructure systems and the many individual buildings that form the built environment. In evaluating the resilience of an individual building, it is fundamental ...

Abstract: Criteria are proposed for determining the stiffness and strength demands for the seismic design of pin-supported walls in low- and medium-rise reinforced-concrete moment frames. A plasticity ratio and a global stiffness ...

Abstract: Two groups of geometrically identical buckling-restrained braces (BRBs) were subjected to either dynamic or quasi-static uniaxial loading until the cores fractured to investigate the effect of the strain rate on the ...

Abstract: An unconstrained gusset connection for buckling restrained braces in reinforced concrete frame structures is proposed and tested as an effort to mitigate the complicated and usually harmful interactions between the steel ...

Abstract: An unconstrained gusset connection for buckling restrained braces in reinforced concrete frame structures is proposed and tested as an effort to mitigate the complicated and usually harmful interactions between the steel ...