The need for social housing creates challenges engineering. One of the most economical and ecological structural systems certain areas is cemented bahareque, which uses Guadua cane, a type Bamboo with favorable properties construction. Despite being an ancient technique construction houses, there not extensive bibliography that allows making justified decisions regarding their design in cases. ...

The capacity and the dynamic response of a hospital network has been estimated using an organizational metamodel that is able to incorporate the influence of facility damage of structural and no-structural components on the organizational system. The waiting time of a patient before receiving treatment is selected as an aggregated function describing the global functionality of technical and or...

Due to the introduction of Eurocode 8, the structural design for seismic and dynamic effects has become more significant in Hungary. This has emphasized the need for more effort to describe the behavior of structures under these conditions. Soil conditions have a significant effect on the response of structures by modifying the stiffness and damping of the soil-structural system and by modifyin...

Broader Impacts. The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) conducts a broad program of earthquake system science that seeks to develop a predictive understanding of earthquake processes with a practical mission aimed at providing society with improved understanding of seismic hazards. In partnership with earthquake engineers, SCEC researchers are developing the ability to conduct end-to-...

Abstract earthquake event is changeable by nature, which has the capacity make devastating operational damage to a structure and collapse in due course leads huge loss of life property loss. Because this, much realization initiated many researchers for progress structural rheostat techniques such as passive controlling active system are associated systems Tuned Mass Damper, Fluid Viscous Damper...

according to non-existence of accurate inspection tools on various steps of design and construction of buildings in the past, also due to any change in function of some structures and finally of seismic activities of residential regions of the country, vulnerability assessment of existing structures is necessary. evaluation of vulnerability of the structures is classified in two categories, qua...

In this paper the application of control theory to structural engineering has been presented from a structural engineering perspective. The objective of this paper is to summarize key steps that are required to design an active control system for a structure. Total acceleration feedback with H2/LQG controller is used in this paper. The structural control device is made of tendon/pulley system. ...

An integrated seismic monitoring system with a total of 55 channels of accelerometers is now operating at and in the nearby free-field site of the 20-story steel-framed Atwood Building, in highly seismic Anchorage, Alaska. The building has a single-story basement and a reinforced-concrete foundation without piles. The monitoring system comprises a 32-channel structural and a 21channel site arra...