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Evangelos Sapountzakis, Georgios Florakis and Konstantinos Kapasakalis
This paper investigates the implementation of supplemental vibration control systems (VCS) in base isolated (BI) structures, to improve their dynamic performance. More specifically, the aim of the VCS is to reduce the base displacement demand of BI struc...
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Özge Sahin and Naci Caglar
The dynamic characteristics of buildings and their behavior under various dynamic loads play a crucial role in civil engineering applications, particularly for earthquake-resistant structural design. Employing a precise mathematical model of the structur...
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Daniele Sivori, Laura Ierimonti, Ilaria Venanzi, Filippo Ubertini and Serena Cattari
Recent advances in computing performance and simulation tools allow today the development of high-fidelity computational models which accurately reproduce the structural behavor of existing structures. At the same time, advancements in sensing technology...
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Wenyu Cao, Benbo Sun and Pengxiao Wang
Rapidly developed deep learning methods, widely used in various fields of civil engineering, have provided an efficient option to reduce the computational costs and improve the predictive capabilities. However, it should be acknowledged that the applicat...
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Buqiao Fan, Xun?an Zhang, Yanjie Xiao, Mustapha Abdulhadi, Xinwei Wang and Muhammad Moman Shahzad
The mega-sub controlled structure system with laminate rubber bearings is an emerging seismic control system for high-rise buildings. The system is high-order statically indeterminate with numerous failure modes. To study the failure modes of the structu...
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Mikhail Lavrentiev, Konstantin Lysakov, Andrey Marchuk, Konstantin Oblaukhov and Mikhail Shadrin
Carbon footprint reduction issues have been drawing more and more attention these days. Reducing the energy consumption is among the basic directions along this line. In the paper, a low-energy approach to tsunami danger evaluation is concerned. After se...
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Abide Asikoglu, Graça Vasconcelos and Paulo B. Lourenço
Performance-based design plays a significant role in the structural and earthquake engineering community to ensure both safety and economic feasibility. Its application to masonry building design/assessment is limited and requires straightforward rules c...
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Amedeo Flora, Donatello Cardone, Marco Vona and Giuseppe Perrone
Comprehensive methodologies based on a fully probabilistic approach (i.e., the performance-based earthquake engineering approach, PBEE), represent a refined and accurate tool for the seismic performance assessment of structures. However, those procedures...
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Giacomo Sevieri, Anna De Falco and Giovanni Marmo
The seismic risk assessment of existing concrete gravity dams is of primary importance for our society because of the fundamental role of these infrastructures in the sustainability of a country. The seismic risk assessment of dams is a challenging task ...
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Said M. Easa and Wai Yeung Yan
Traditional design approaches in civil engineering mainly focus on codes/guidelines related to building an infrastructure, while performance-based analysis (PBA), an emerging new reality around the world, focuses on the performance of the end product. Pr...
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