Abstract: Reliability‐based optimization techniques are developed for steel structures subjected to seismic loadings of the Uniform Building Code and Newmark's nondeterministic seismic response spectra. Reliability is based on two ...

Abstract: A technique of calculating inelastic deformation of low‐rise shear walls having height‐width ratios of 0.5 and 0.75 without boundary elements is presented with consideration of the coupling effect for bending and shear ...