HUMAN BODY DYNAMICS UNDER HORIZONTAL GROUND MOTIONS: SHAKING-TABLE TESTS AND SIMPLIFIED MODELING UNDER STANDING CONDITIONS

Modeling Strategic Dynamics Under Alternative Information Conditions

In this paper we present a computational cognitive model of two-player interaction under different information conditions. In particular, the model aims at reproducing human behavior in a laboratory experiment based on repeated “Chicken Game”. This research shows that information availability deeply influences the strategies and cognitive mechanisms chosen by players and the resulting outcomes....

Modeling human sequence learning under incidental conditions.

This research explored the role that associative learning may play in human sequence learning. Two-choice serial reaction time tasks were performed under incidental conditions using 2 different sequences. In both cases, an experimental group was trained on 4 subsequences: LLL, LRL, RLR, and RRR for Group "Same" and LLR, LRR, RLL, and RRL for Group "Different," with left and right counterbalance...

Two-Sample Quantile Tests Under General Conditions

TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF 2D BUILDING FRAMES UNDER ARTIFICIAL EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS USING POLYGONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

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...

Estimation of Seismic Loss for a Portfolio of Buildings under Bidirectional Horizontal Ground Motions due to a Scenario Cascadia Event

Earthquake ground motions induced by a scenario event are spatially (partially) correlated and (partially) coherent. Simulated ground motion records can be used to carry out nonlinear inelastic time history analysis for a portfolio of buildings to estimate the seismic loss, which is advantageous as there is no need to develop and apply empirical ground motion prediction equations and the ductil...