near-fault ground motions have caused very much damage in the vicinity of seismic sources during recent earthquakes. it is well known that under specific circumstances, intensive ground shakings near fault ruptures may be characterized by short-duration impulsive motions. this pulse-type motion is generally particular to the forward direction, where the fault rupture propagates towards the site...

High-rise flexible-frame buildings are commonly considered to be resistant to shaking from the largest earthquakes. In addition, base isolation has become increasingly popular for critical buildings that should still function after an earthquake. How will these two types of buildings perform if a large earthquake occurs beneath a metropolitan area? To answer this question, we simulated the near...

1.1. The History of Precast Building Precast building has always been a challenge in terms of the attempt to build buildings, above all, more quickly, whilst at the same time meeting all the conditions of good quality construction. This paper deals with the precast mode of construction using a timber frame, of the panel type, suitable for buildings with 3-4 storeys above ground. Therefore, in t...

Modeling buildings response to blast and subsequent progressive collapse interested more and more researchers during the past two decades. Due to the threat from extreme loading, efforts have been made to develop methods of structural analysis and design. In this paper, progressive collapse capacity of steel moment frames was first investigated using alternate load path method, then a nonlinear...

This paper describes formulation and implementation of the fast multipole boundary element method (FMBEM) for 2D acoustic problems. The kernel function expansion theory is summarized, and four building blocks of the FMBEM are described in details. They are moment calculation, moment to moment translation, moment to local translation, and local to local translation. A data structure for the quad...

Recent investigations have shown that the influences of Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) may be detrimental to the seismic response of structure, and hence neglecting this phenomenon in analysis and design may lead to an un-conservative design. The objective of this paper is to quantify the effects of nonlinear soil-structure interaction on the seismic response of a low-rise special moment fram...

The main purpose of this paper was to use a combination of Energy-based design method and whale algorithm (WOA), hereinafter referred to as E-WOA, to optimize steel moment frames and improve the seismic performance. In E-WOA, by properly estimating the seismic input energy and determining the optimal mechanism for the structure, steel frames are designed based on the energy balance method; acco...

Since the 19th century, portal frames have been used to build industrial buildings because development process is fast, economical, and efficient. This research aims look at cross-section of structural elements in BS 5950-1:2000 spans 15 m 40 using SNI 1726:2019 with modal analysis, including horizontal deflection stress ratio, LRFD ASD methods. Then, structure was revised be safe against earth...

Abstract Fragility curves are the primary way of assessing seismic risk for a building with numerous studies focused on deriving these fragility and how to account inherent uncertainty in assessment. This study focuses three-story steel moment frame structure performs assessment using new approach called SPO2FRAG (Static Pushover Fragility) that is based pushover analysis. further compared cont...