The present aim of this study is to investigate the effect of different parameters influencing pounding in highway bridges. Pounding is the result of a collision between two parts of the deck and/or the deck and abutments at the separation distance during the earthquake.  In the present study, the period ratio of the adjacent frames, ground motion spatial variation, and soil-structure interacti...

The significance of stochasticity in the characteristics of the surface layers of a site to the resulting spatial variation of seismic ground motions and the seismic ground strains is investigated. For this purpose, an analytical site-specific model is developed. The model approximates the site topography by a horizontally extended layer with random characteristics overlying a half-space (bedro...

In this article, topology optimization of two-dimensional (2D) building frames subjected to seismic loading is performed using the polygonal finite element method. Artificial ground motion accelerograms compatible with the design response spectrum of ASCE 7-16 are generated for the response history dynamic analysis needed in the optimization. The mean compliance of structure is minimized as a t...

Long-span bridges, as vital structures, play a very important role in economic development. Furthermore, the results of several earthquake-damaged bridges showed that their seismic behavior was different from that predicted under uniform excitation and in some cases the responses were more than predicted results. Therefore, the damaged bridges under non-uniform excitations were re-analyzed and ...

During an earthquake, the motion of the ground spatially changes, in both amplitude and phase. The spatial variation of seismic ground motions has an important effect on the response of large structures such as bridges and dams. To be able to simulate seismic ground motions which vary in space, a representing spatial variability model is required. Data collected from closely spaced arrays of se...