Abstract In this paper, three different damage indexes were used to detect nonlinear damages in two adjacent Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures considering pounding effects. 2-, 4- and 8-story benchmark RC Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs) selected for purpose with 60%, 75%, 100% of minimum separation distance also without any in-between gap. These analyzed using the incremental dynamic analysis ...

This work investigates the efficiency of tuned inerter dampers (TIDs) in controlling seismic response two adjacent buildings and pounding distance between them. Pervious research on this subject has shown that installing TIDs every floor one coupling each with additional inerters (CS1) provides best control performance. Some potential drawbacks solution are large number devices used practical d...

The effect of an intensity measure’s (IM’s) sufficiency property on the probabilistic assessment reinforced concrete (RC) structures due to floor-to-floor structural pounding conditions is examined. In first part this investigation, efficiency and properties 23 scalar IMs are verified. Then, magnitude Mw distance Rrup examined as elements in a vector with efficient IM evaluate whether they have...