A New Relationship for Determining the Impact Force between Two Adjacent Structures Considering Building Pounding [PDF]
Insufficient separation distance between two adjacent buildings can cause to collision when large lateral displacements are accrued due to seismic excitation.
Yaghub Ebrahimi+3 more
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A New Relationship to Determine Fundamental Natural Period of Vibration for Irregular Buildings in Height Using Artificial Neural Network [PDF]
One of the most important structural features is fundamental vibration period which depends significantly on the inherent characteristics of structures.
Adel Loghmani+2 more
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Evaluation of the Effect of Link Beams on Seismic Performance and Parameters of Reinforced Concrete Box-type Buildings [PDF]
In many studies on the evaluation of seismic behavior of RC buildings with a box-type structural system, link beams are not included in models simulation in order to reduce the time and effort of calculations.
Vahid Mohsenian, Alireza Mortezaei
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Highlights Progressive collapse was studied in RCSWs frames considering soil–structure interaction. A parametric study of structure and substructures was done on progressive collapse.
Seyed Ali Ekrami Kakhki+2 more
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Research on Seismic Vulnerability of Continuous Beam Bridges Based on Incremental Dynamic Analysis Method [PDF]
The seismic vulnerability of highway continuous girder bridges is analyzed to provide theoretical basis for the study of multi-stage fortification and seismic design of such bridges.
Wang Peizhi
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In this essay, to investigate the progressive collapse of the reinforced concrete (RC) frames, a nonlinear static pushdown analysis was performed with column removal scenarios from the first story.
Seyed Ali Ekrami Kakhki+2 more
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Impact effect on seismic response of friction pendulum base isolated liquid storage tanks [PDF]
Liquid storage tanks are important industrial structures that must continue their performance under severe earthquakes. The induced damages caused in the past earthquakes shows their poorly behavior of these structures.
Alireza Abdeveis, Alireza Mortezaei
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Evaluation of the seismic performance of isolated electrical transformers under pulse-like excitations [PDF]
Damage sustained by electrical transformers in past strong earthquakes led to irrecoverable and severe economic losses. The seismic performance evaluation is associated with the loss of proper functioning of transformers.
Mohammad Mahmoudi+2 more
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Seismic Retrofitting the Steel Storage Tanks using Single Concave Friction Isolators under the Long Period Earthquakes [PDF]
Cylindrical liquid storage tanks are contemplated as vital structures in industrial complex whose nonlinear dynamic behavior is of crucial importance.
Alireza Abdeveis, Alireza Mortezaei
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Seismic Performance Evaluation and Retrofit of Liquid Storage Tanks- Case Study
Seismic performance of existing liquid pentane storage tanks located in a tank farm in Turkey Kocaeli region, which is a high seismic region, is studied. The tanks are free-to-slide on their existing reinforced concrete foundation.
Bülent Erkmen
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