This research investigates the nonlinear behavior of scaled infilled masonry (IFM), confined (CM), and reinforced concrete (RC) structures by utilizing validating two tests from literature as benchmarks. The validation was based on a comparison with pushover results small-scaled physical their numerical modeling. Numerical modeling small-scale (1:4 1:3) IFM, CM, RC models has been carried out F...

Unanchored steel storage tanks are used in industrial plants to store oil and other petrochemical liquids. In a major earthquake, such may sustain different types of damage, including elasto-plastic buckling the shape an elephant's foot, which is object research. The methodology introduced this paper consists cloud-based 1D site response analysis (SRA) pushover-based seismic performance assessm...

This paper compares the target displacement estimate from four current nonlinear static procedures—FEMA-356 CM, ASCE­ 41 CM, ATC-40 CSM, and FEMA-440 CSM—with the value derived from recorded motions of five strongly shaken reinforced concrete buildings.This comparison provides useful insight into two important questions: (1) how much does the target displacement vary among the four nonlinear st...

The prototype hybrid high-rise structure is special for its dual structural systems, so a 1/50 shaking table model was tested by the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering of Tongji University to study its seismic behaviors. Then numerical models were made by 3D finite element analysis software, named MIDAS. The comparison of the analytical and experimental results veri...