Seismic Response Analysis of Two Major Bridge Structures
The seismic response analyses of two major bridge structures have been conducted. In these two bridges, portions of the piles are either submerged in the water or free-standing within...
Performance of Existing Buildings: Results of Benchmark Structure Analyses Performed in U.S.-Japan Workshops
In response to the need for better understanding of current safety evaluation methodologies, three U. S. -Japan workshops have been conducted on the evaluation of the performance of existing...
Strengthening of a Multi-Story Building with Deflection Constraints
Occasionally the existing structural or nonstructural systems of a building being strengthened require the imposition of deflection constraints or limits in order to avoid an undesirable...
Regional Risk Assessment of Existing Buildings
This paper describes current research underway at Stanford University designed to develop a methodology for determining high risk buildings in a region. The work involves developing a...
On Reliability-Based Structural Optimization for Earthquakes
Previous studies of reliability-based structural optimization have been extended in order to investigate the applicability of the linear statistical model in cases where random parameters...
Seismic Restraint of Hazardous Process Piping
The lack of appropriate guidelines for the design and installation of hazardous process piping in industrial facilities has created a potentially dangerous situation. Process piping carrying...
Three Phase Design for Wind Loads on Structures
The successful design of a structure requires three phases of work. These phases are: conceptual design, design development and design verification. The conceptual design is undertaken...
Slab Participation in Frames under Lateral Loads
A unique opportunity to study slab participation was afforded by the U. S. -Japan Cooperative project on large scale testing. The data obtained from the full-scale 7-story building tested...
Evaluation of Seismic Strengthening of an Existing Building Using Base Isolation
This paper summarizes a study performed by Englekirk and Hart, Inc. to evaluate the feasibility of using base isolation to seismically upgrade an existing highrise building. To realize...
Earthquake Response of Five Story Reinforced Concrete Masonry Test Building
In 1986, a full-scale five story reinforced masonry test building is to be constructed in the Japan Building Research Institute Large-Scale Structure Test Laboratory, and through 1987...
Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Masonry Walls and Beams
Many reinforced masonry walls and beams were tested as a part of the U. S. -Japan cooperative research program on masonry building structures. Six concrete block and two clay brick masonry...
Stress-Strain Behavior of Grouted Hollow Unit Masonry
Experimental results from axial stress-strain tests including post-peak response on hollow unit masonry prisms are compared to those of previous researchers....
Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction for RC Lifelines
The behavior of buried cylinders merits attention because of the impact of lifeline survivability under earthquake effects, and failures may adversely affect many communities that employ...
Soil-Structure Interaction at the Waterfront
In 1981 the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL) undertook a review of available material models. Comparison was made between test data and model predictions. Based on this study,...
Nonlinear Response Combination in Seismic Analysis
Simple, approximate methods are developed to evaluate the maxima of response measures which are nonlinear functions of modal responses to seismic input. Examples for such response quantities...
Modeling for Finite-Element Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis
The modeling for finite-element soil-structure interaction analysis for embedded structures is evaluated in an attempt to resolve the issue related to the elevation at which design ground...
The Simulation of Soil-Concrete Interfaces with a Non-local Constitutive Model
This investigation explores a method for predicting deformation in the vicinity of interfaces of dissimilar materials such as concrete and soil. Based upon the basic features of the deformation...
Bounded State Control of Structures with Uncertain Parameters
The control of linear systems in the presence of set constrained external disturbances has been investigated maintaining the states in a prespecified region by estimating the maximum reachable...
An Experimental Study of Active Structural Control
An experimental investigation is made concerning the possible application of active control to structures under seismic excitation. The experimental facilities and structural model are...
Cladding Design for Tall Buildings
In the past twenty years, glass cladding has emerged as a popular and economic building material. Its use in tall buildings which are constructed in high-risk wind and seismic geographical...
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