This article examines the baseline resilience of reinforced concrete (RC) moment frame buildings conforming to seismic design standards Canada. Metrics for robustness, rapidity, and are evaluated capture system’s reliability, speed recovery, socioeconomic impacts. Buildings different heights using nonlinear time-history analyses. Six damage states defined as disjoint branches an event tree depe...

Shear wall is one of the most commonly used lateral load resisting in high rise building. Shear wall has high in plane stiffness and strength which can be used to simultaneously resist large horizontal load and support gravity load. The objective of the present study is to study the behavior of building frame in the lateral load analysis of shear wall-frame structures; a fundamental goal is to ...

1. Abstract In this paper, a genetic algorithm is proposed for discrete minimal weight design of steel planar frames with semi-rigid beam-tocolumn connections. The frame elements are constructed from a predetermined range of section profiles. Conventionally, the analysis of frame structures is based on the assumption that all connections are either frictionless pinned or fully rigid. Recent lim...