In two and almost a half years of writing this column my mum, Vesna Andrijević-Matovac, and I, Nika Matovac, shared with you a true and very intimate story of a woman with breast cancer and her daughter. In these columns, you have witnessed our great moments, sad moments, and devastating moments, you have been a part of our life. Now, as everything has its beginning and its end, it is time to s...

This paper presents a simple displacement-based seismic design method for RC frames with steel damper column. As numerical example, two 10-story frame building models are shown. The results of nonlinear time-history analysis show that the peak displacement at equivalent height is close to target displacement. strength demand beam ends connected columns, and beam-damper column joints, calculated...

‘‘Daddy, tell me a story. A good one.’’ An engineer pauses at the request. We know how to measure and build many things. But imagining, crafting, and telling a story? That is hard. If you are building or researching any aspect of multimedia, however, then you should be thinking about how your work helps both you and the user experience a story. Telling stories is an important part of how we com...

This study presents a novel method for accurately predicting the dynamic behavior of multistory frame buildings under earthquake ground motion. The proposed allows approximately estimating inter-story drift ratio, crucial parameter strongly associated with building damage, its distribution along height, and maximum value location. An equivalent continuous beam model rotation at base, consisting...