This paper presents an approach for the optimal design of a new retrofi t technique called weakening and damping that is valid for civil engineering inelastic structures. An alternative design methodology is developed with respect to the existing ones that is able to determine the locations and the magnitude of weakening and/or softening of structural elements and adding damping while insuring ...

Setback irregularities are considered where discontinuity between adjacent stories is excessive. This irregularity caused the probability of high damage at structures subjected to strong earthquake motion. For this purpose, study was conducted by modeling steel special moment frame (SMF) using a finite element calculation program with nonlinear static analysis compared Padang city’s response sp...

Seismic behaviour of steel-concrete composite high-rise buildings, composed of external steel frames (SF) and internal concrete tube (CT), with rectangular plan is investigated in this paper. A macro-element based model is established for seismic analysis of composite high-rise buildings aiming at predicting their global responses under earthquakes. By employing this macro-element based model, ...

The incident angle of ground motion is one of the sources of uncertainty in the seismic response of buildings. Moreover, understanding the structural response to the impose ground motion may cause significant changes in the maximum response of buildings. In order to investigate the effect of the spatial distribution of orthogonal components of earthquake strong motion on the structural response...

The control performance of a smart top-story isolation system for a building structure subjected to seismic excitation was investigated in this paper. For this purpose, a 20-story shear building model was selected as an example structure and an artificial earthquake generated based on design spectrum of low-to-moderate seismicity regions such as Korea was used for structural analyses. MR damper...

In this study, the adaptability of a semi-active top-story isolation system with an MR damper for reduction of seismic responses of tall buildings has been investigated. To this end, a 20-story building structure was selected as an example. Low damping elastomeric bearings and an MR damper were used to compose a smart top-story isolation system. Artificial earthquakes generated based on design ...

Most of the existing seismic design codes are based on the empirical knowledge accumulated through systematic earthquake damage data collection and their analysis. Required levels of protection and seismic design forces gradually are increased after each series of catastrophic earthquakes particularly in developed countries. Many efforts have been made through experimental and analytical studie...

This paper presents new research in the field of nonlinear static seismic analysis and N2 method for soil-structure systems. The rationale this study stems from inclusion systems simplified displacement-based design methods. conducted comprises three parts, including original experimental investigations, development numerical models validation results. A methodology is presented that provides a...

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 nonlinear static procedures (nsps) proposed by design codes do not lead to reliable results especially for tall buildings. they generally provide inconsistent estimates of inelastic seismic demands, especially for the top floors due to their inabilities in considering the higher modes effects. in this paper, a new enhanced pushover procedure is proposed which is based on the envelope of the...