Life-Cycle Assessment of Seismic Retrofit Strategies Applied to Existing Building Structures

Risk Assessment and Retrofit of Existing Buildings

The structural risk assessment and evaluation process is broken into the steps of Develop knowledge of as-built conditions, Determine local response characteristics, Create mathematical model, Perform global analysis, Determine acceptability, and Select retrofit procedure/Classify per evaluation procedure and each step discussed. These steps, in general, are major topics of their own and only a...

Seismic Response of Building Structures with Sliding Non-structural Elements

Interaction between a structure under base excitation and heavy non-structural elements that it supports is significant in the seismic analysis and design of the structure. Heavy non-structural elements may slide/rock under base excitation, and this dynamic action affects the seismic behavior of the supporting structure. Hence, in this study, a numerical model was presented to describe the seis...

Displacement-based Rapid Seismic Assessment Procedure for Building Structures

Assessment of existing offshore structures for life extension

In decision making under uncertainty there are two main questions that need to be evaluated:i) What are the future consequences and associated uncertainties of an action, and ii) what isa good (or right) decision or action. Philosophically these issues are categorised as epistemicquestions (i.e. questions of knowledge) and ethical questions (i.e. questions of moral andnorms)...

Seismic Retrofit of a Historical Building in Tehran University Museum Using FRP Technology and Steel Jacketing

In this paper evaluation of seismic capacity of a historical building is carried out. It had been used as a national library about 40 years ago. Also, before that, it had been constructed as a part of a Royal complex. This building has been constructed by traditional methods using bricks and mortars. The ceilings system of the structure consists of jack arches. Also, the roof of the building ha...