Keywords: Performance-based designs. Non-structural components and contents (NCC). Designs paradigms. Structural framing systems. Response-history analyses ...

This Research Topic highlights recent advances in fractal geometry, fractional calculus, and artificial intelligence (AI) for addressing complex problems in ...

A full-scale, two-story, light-frame wood townhouse building, designed according to modern US engineered seismic design requirements, was tested on two tri-axial shake tables operating in unison, as ...

A next generation of design criteria for buildings located in geographic regions where earthquakes are known to occur, either rarely or frequently, is under development at Virginia Tech through a ...

Assessing how bridges and other critical infrastructure will perform during earthquakes is a central problem in earthquake engineering. That problem ...

A new study in Civil Engineering Sciences reports a magnitude-based incremental dynamic analysis method, or MIDA, for evaluating structures exposed to near-fault earthquakes. Using a cable-stayed ...