In this study, constant-ductility optimization algorithm under a family of earthquake ground motions is utilized to achieve uniform damage distribution over the height of steel moment resisting frames (SMRFs). SMRF structures with stiffness-degrading hysteric behavior are modeled as single-bay generic frame in which the plastic hinge is confined only at the beam ends and the bottom of the first...

In this paper we consider the problem of determining all values of v for which there exists a decomposition of the complete 3-uniform hypergraph on v vertices into edge-disjoint copies of a given 3-uniform hypergraph. We solve the problem for each 3-uniform hypergraph having at most three edges and at most six vertices, and for the 3-uniform hypergraph of order 6 whose edges form the lines of t...

Wave vibration analysis approach is found a systematic and concise approach in solving complex vibration problems in built-up frame structures. From the wave vibration standpoint, vibrations propagate along a uniform waveguide, and are reflected and transmitted at discontinuities. In this study, a multi-story multi-bay steel frame is built. The wave vibration analysis approach is applied to stu...

In this paper we discuss motivations and strategies for generalising over instance-based frame assignment rules that we extract from frame-annotated corpora. Corpus-induced syntax-semantics mapping rules for frame assignment can be used for automatic semantic role labelling of unparsed text, but further, to extract linguistic knowledge for a lexical semantic resource with a general syntax-seman...