Design of blast resistant structures is an important subject in structural engineering, attracting the attention of governments, researchers, and engineers. Thus, given the benefits of optimization in engineering, development and assessment of optimization methods for optimum design of structures against blast is of great importance. In this research, multi-objective optimization of steel momen...

Over recent years, the application of performance-based design (PBD) has continually grown in tall buildings and other structures excited by large wind loads. PBD also become a mainstream approach to assess reduce risks rehabilitation existing structures. The significant wind-related economic losses incurred every year around world have prompted researchers develop methods reframe engineering e...

This paper discusses the suitability of two optimization methods for use in seismic retrofit location selection. The structure for analysis is modelled after a seven story RC structure in California, USA, built according to 1964 Los Angeles City Building Code. The OpenSees parallel computing software package is used to model the dynamic behaviour of a test structure. Past earthquake records are...

For buildings that meet the requirements of current seismic design codes, damage to nonstructural components and internal objects often become main source economic losses these buildings. However, specifications only consider safety ‘no collapse under strong earthquake’ do not ‘functional recoverability’. In this paper, a six-story frame building was taken as an example. Four joint performance ...

In the present study an additional measure of story narrative performance, story completeness, is evaluated. The completeness measure involves a tally of the critical story components mentioned by a storyteller. It was hypothesized that by combining organizational (story grammar) and completeness measures, story “goodness” could be quantified. Data from 46 normal adults indicated that this anal...