Standards Section Ho-Won Jung,* Robin Hunter, Dennis R. Goldenson and Khaled El-Emam 1 Department of Business Administration, Korea University, Anam-dong 5Ka, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-701, Korea 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK 3 Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA 4 National Rese...

Chantal Vallée is the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Windsor in Canada. She holds a master’s degree in sport psychology with a focus on building successful programs. She has received 12 conference and 2 national coach of the year awards, produced 4 national team members, and has won 5 national titles. In her last seven seasons, she has maintained a 93% winning pe...

Nowadays, due to environmental changes, the condition of buildings can be in danger. In order protect performance existing buildings, it is important investigate seismic behaviour building structure subjected earthquake excitation. addition, study advanced level ductile design recommended by current codes. immediate future, lateral load resistance needs evaluated precisely. For purpose analyzin...

well-known seismic design codes have offered an alternative equivalent static procedure for practical purposes instead of verifying design trials with complicated step-y-step dynamic analyses. such a pattern of base-shear distribution over the building height will enforce its special stiffness and strength distribution which is not necessarily best suited for seismic design. the present study, ...

Light-frame wood construction comprises nearly 90% of the housing industry in Canada and United States. The roofs these houses can be constructed either entirely on site or using prefabricated trusses. Assembling roof structure site, otherwise known as stick-framing, is a framing technique with current code guidelines that are based past practice limited consideration wind loads. This makes str...