There are no outriggers or belt trusses. There are no buckling restrained braces or seismic braces of any kind. There are no dampers—tuned, sloshing or otherwise. And there are no perimeter ...

Code-based earthquake engineering is on the verge of getting simpler, thanks to the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program’s recommendation to replace the traditional seismic hazard maps with ...

Every year the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) hosts a conference where members of industry, students, and faculty gather to learn about advancements in the research of Earthquake ...

Keywords: NEESWood. Seismic protection systems. Woodframe structures. Multistory structures. Residential structures. Performance-based seismic design. Seismic damping. Seismic isolation systems.

This Safety Guide provides recommendations on how to meet the applicable safety requirements in relation to the design aspects of new nuclear installations subjected ...

Metro officials said designs for piles, pillars and stations are being updated to meet specifications under the new seismic zone notification issued by BIS.

Keywords: Performance-based seismic design (PBSD). Direct displacement design (DDD). Multistory structures. Woodframe structures. Interstory drifts. Nonlinear dynamic time-history analyses. Abstract: ...

Levi's Stadium is built 'like a shock absorber.' ...

Seismic activity is highly complex, and even with advanced data analytics tools there are still many unknown factors in seismic design ...