Seismic resilience is the residual capacity of a damaged system for recovering and sustaining an acceptable level performance as consequence seismic event. Firstly, this paper summarizes current calculation framework using fragility analyses. After that, new metric based on vulnerability analyses developed to calculate resilience. Finally, typical hospital building adopted single then retrofitt...

The aim of this study is to investigate the performance isolated structures by considering possibility impact under severe earthquakes. In design structures, required displacement capacity determined based on considered earthquake hazard level. However, there a an caused moat walls or adjacent Dampers are used in improve structural and nonstructural components. regard, three (6, 9, 12 stories) ...

The paper is a continuation of the works "Modelling of viscous damping of perforated planar micromechanical structures. Applications in acoustics" [Homentcovschi and Miles, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 2939-2947 (2004)] and "Viscous Damping of Perforated Planar Micromechanical Structures" [Homentcovschi and Miles, Sensors Actuators, A119, 544-552 (2005)] where design formulas for the case of an off...

The most important property of a base-isolation system is to make the base more flexible than the elements of the superstructure, but it must still be stiff enough to resist typical pounding forces, wind loadings, and similar low-amplitude horizontal forces. However, the potential consequences of earthquake-induced poundings on seismically isolated buildings can be much more substantial, and, t...