Stories and story-telling are a cultural achievement of significant relevance, even in modern times. Since ancient times stories have served to entertain and teach mankind to “transmit” knowledge from generation to generation. Story-telling ranges from simple aural narrations to traditional inter-generational discourse and, in modern times, workflow-oriented organizational learning. Web-based s...

In regions prone to seismic activity, buildings constructed on soft soil pose a significant concern due their inferior performance. This situation often results in considerable structural damage, substantial economic loss, and increased risk human life. To address this problem, study focuses the retrofitting of steel moment-resisting frames using friction metal-yielding dampers, taking into acc...

Steel Special Moment Frames (SMFs) are favored seismic force-resisting systems due to their architectural flexibility and high ductility. While shallow columns (section depth less than 356 mm) were commonly used in these before the Northridge earthquake, deeper greater have become more popular recent years meet code-enforced story drift requirements economically. However, limited research exist...

A shaking table experiment conducted on a multi-degrees-of-freedom frame structure equipped with non-conventional tuned mass damper (TMD) is presented. The TMD characterized by high ratio, without adding further structural masses, and realized via inter-story isolation. top story of four-story steel isolated converted into mass, connecting to the substructure two damping rubber bearings placed ...

Steel Plate Shear Wall (SPSW) is an emerging seismic load-resistant system that, compared to other systems, enjoys the advantages of stable ductile behavior, fewer detailing requirements, rapid constructability, and economy. American seismic provisions decree that a SPSW should be designed as a moment frame with a web infill plate. Specifically, in case of buildings taller than 160 ft, it decre...