We performed a seismic vulnerability assessment that involves geotechnical and building structure analysis for Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, city located along the pacific coast. like many other Latin American cities, has significant risk. implemented multichannel of surface waves horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio methods to estimate shear wave velocity soil resonance frequency. considered stand...

The need for an accurate risk assessment procedure led to the development of various fragility and vulnerability curves, covering a wide range building typologies. Nonlinear soil behavior soil–structure interaction (SSI) effects play essential role in this outcome; nevertheless, their influence is usually neglected. While building-specific applications, these may be explicitly considered, it cu...

Presented is an energy-based analysis and design framework for soil structure interaction system. Theoretical formulation based on thermodynamics engineering mechanics calculating energy dissipation in structural elastic plastic finite elements presented discussed. The importance of incorporation free energy, that ensures nonnegative incremental dissipation, also known as the second law thermod...