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...

The run time of many scientific computation applications for numerical methods is heavily dependent on just a few multi-dimensional loop nests. Since these applications are often limited by memory bandwidth rather than computational resources they can benefit greatly from any optimizations which decrease the run time of their loops by improving data reuse and thus reducing the total memory traf...

The word tomography finds its origins in the two Greek words tomos, meaning section, and graphy, which translates as drawing. There are many different types of tomography used in many sciences such as medicine, biology, materials science and geology. The basic idea of tomography in all of its uses is to obtain a cross-section of an object which will then be used to infer various facts regarding...

This paper aims to obtain the optimal distance between the adjacent structures using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm considering structure-soil-structure systems; The optimization algorithm has been prepared in MATLAB software and connected into OpenSees software (where the structure-soil-structure system has been analyzed by the direct approach). To this end, a series of adjacent s...

Context. On its asteroseismic side, the initial run of CoRoT was partly devoted to the solar like star HD49933. The eigenmodes of this F dwarf have been observed with unprecedented accuracy. Aims. We investigate quantitatively the impact of changes in the modeling parameters like mass and composition. More importantly we investigate how a sophisticated physics affects the seismological picture ...

this paper provides a comparison of the maximum inter-story drifts and tip acceleration of both a 16 and 30 stories building each with different structural systems; hybrid r.c moment frame with shear walls and hybrid steel frame with shear walls and x bracing which are equipped by passive dampers. each of the building models were analyzed as fully non-linear structures for variety of dampers pl...

the present study assesses the seismic performance of steel moment resisting frames (smfs) retrofitted with different bracing systems. two structural configurations were utilized: ordinary concentrically braces (ocbfs), buckling-restrained braces (brbfs). a 7-story and 18-story steel perimeter smfs were designed with insufficient lateral stiffness to satisfy code drift limitations in high seism...

Context. On its asteroseismic side, the initial run of CoRoT was partly devoted to the solar like star HD 49933. The eigenmodes of this F dwarf have been observed with unprecedented accuracy. Aims. We investigate quantitatively the impact of changes in the modeling parameters like mass and composition. More importantly we investigate how a sophisticated physics affects the seismological picture...

It is well recognized that structures designed by current codes undergo large inelastic deformations during major earthquakes. However, lateral force distributions given in the seismic design codes are typically based on results of elastic response studies. In this paper, current code lateral force distributions are reviewed in view of the results obtained from nonlinear dynamic analyses of sev...