Soft storey building is popular due to the functional and aesthetic purpose, despite its weakness in resisting seismic excitation. Nonlinear Static (Pushover) Analysis (POA) is a time saving and simple assessment procedure prosposed in Eurocode 8 (EC8). However, its reliability in designing structure still remains a question. At the first stage, seismic performance of several building models us...

In the present paper a new method for sensorless control is presented, which can handle the presence of multiple non-separatable saliencies. Because of the inimitability of the measured impedance curves, the method is based on the minimum error between the measured curves during operation and precommissioned reference curves. The method can handle alternating and rotating test signals. The capa...

In envelope-based models for worst-case performance evaluation like Network Calculus or Real-Time Calculus, several types of service curves have been introduced to quantify some deterministic service guarantees. This paper studies the expressiveness of those different definitions of service curves. We revisit the hierarchy ranging from the most restrictive definition linked to variable capacity...

The main aim of the present study is to optimize steel moment frames in the framework of performance-based design and to assess the seismic collapse capacity of the optimal structures. In the first phase of this study, four well-known metaheuristic algorithms are employed to achieve the optimization task. In the second phase, the seismic collapse safety of the obtained optimal designs is evalua...

Hexagrid structural system is an innovated system with structural behavior which is similar to a tubular system. In this paper, a numerical study is conducted to estimate the seismic performance of horizontal hexagrid concerning the combined horizontal and vertical hexagrid, tubular and diagrid structural systems. First 30 and 50 story buildings are modeled using ETABS, then pushover and nonlin...