Motivators and impediments to seismic retrofit implementation for wood-frame soft-story buildings: A case study in California. [PDF]
Earthq Spectra, 2022 Motivating property owners to mitigate seismic risks for existing buildings is a major challenge for many earthquake-prone regions. This article identifies primary factors that may affect the adoption of seismic retrofit by owners of commercial and ...
Zhang Y, Fung JF, Johnson KJ, Sattar S.
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Earthquake Retrofitting of “Soft-Story” RC Frame Structures with RC Infills
Applied Sciences, 2022 Multi-story, old reinforced concrete (RC) structures with a “soft-story” on the ground floor, sustain considerable damage to the soft story during earthquakes due to the presence of masonry infills in the upper stories.
George C. Manos +3 more
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Shock and Vibration, 2023 Due to the tectonic plate movement, numerous aftershocks may occur following an earthquake. There are several real mainshock-aftershock ground motion records in which the peak ground acceleration of aftershock is greater than that of the mainshock ...
Hamed Kouhestanian +4 more
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Effect of a Near Fault on the Seismic Response of a Base-Isolated Structure with a Soft Storey
Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering, 2017 This study focuses on the soft-storey behavior of RC structures with lead core rubber bearing (LRB) isolation systems under near and far-fault motions.
Athamnia B., Ounis A., Abdeddaim M.
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EARTHQUAKE RETROFITTING OF “SOFT-STORY” RC BUILDINGS
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2015), 2023 George C. Manos +3 more
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Soft Story Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures with Masonry Infill Walls [PDF]
Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering, 2023 Based on the seismic design codes to prevent soft-story failure, columns of a soft story must be designed for amplified loads due to the discontinuity of braces or shear walls in that story.
Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Gelekolai +1 more
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Investigation of seismic response of asymmetric buckling restrained braced frames equipped with zipper struts [PDF]
Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering, 2021 One of the most important deficiency of buckling restrained braced frames is the concentration of lateral drifts in some specific stories and the soft story mechanism, under moderate to severe earthquakes.
Nader Hoveidae, Navid Ahmadi
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Evaluation of Park-Ang Damage Indicator in collisions of two adjacent frames under the near-fault field disturbances [PDF]
Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering, 2021 Pounding of adjacent buildings during earthquake causes local and total damages in buildings. One of the ways to reduce the damage in pounding, is creating a separation gap between two adjacent buildings.
Mohsen Gerami +3 more
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Influence of a Soft Story on the Seismic Response of Non-Structural Components
Sustainability, 2023 Multi-story, reinforced-concrete (RC) building structures with soft stories are highly vulnerable to damage due to earthquake loads. The soft story causes a significant stiffness irregularity, which has led to numerous buildings collapsing in previous ...
Vyshnavi Pesaralanka +6 more
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Engineering World, 2023 Recent seismic events have highlighted the vulnerability of reinforced concrete buildings, especially soft-story structures, to damage and collapse during strong earthquakes due to the ground's vibrational response.
Farah Alnayhoum +3 more
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