buildings with high degree of importance such as hospitals, police stations, fire stations and other vital facilities play a crucial role in crisis and risk management of cities. therefore, special attention should be paid to design and construction of these buildings in order to maintain their performance during and after the earthquake. important buildings in iran is designed according to the...

This paper proposes a GA-based reduced search space technique (GA-RSS) for the optimal design of steel moment frames. It tries to reduce the computation time by focusing the search around the boundaries of the constraints, using a ranking-based constraint handling to enhance the efficiency of the algorithm. This attempt to reduce the search space is due to the fact that in most optimization pro...

Motivated by [B. Han and Q. Mo, Adv. Comp. Math. 18 (2003) 211-245] and [B. Han and Z. Shen, Constr. Approx. 29 (2009) 369-406], we propose dual two-direction frames in dual Sobolev spaces (H(R), H−s(R)), with s > 0. Based on the dual two-direction frames from a pair of two-direction refinable functions, dual multiwavelet frames with symmetry {Ψ(x) := (ψ 1(x), ψ 2(x)) T }`=1 and {Ψ̃(x) : = (ψ̃ 1(...

‎in this paper‎, ‎first we develop the duality concept for $g$-bessel sequences‎ ‎and bessel fusion sequences in hilbert spaces‎. ‎we obtain some results about dual‎, ‎pseudo-dual ‎and approximate dual of frames and fusion frames‎. ‎we also expand every $g$-bessel ‎sequence to a frame by summing some elements‎. ‎we define the restricted isometry property for ‎$g$-frames and generalize some resu...

In this paper, an optimization framework is developed for performance-based seismic design of composite moment frames consisting of concrete filled steel box columns and I-shaped steel beams. Material cost of the structure and seismic damage under severe earthquake ground motions are minimized as objective functions. Two design examples are presented to demonstrate the applicability and efficie...

with respect to the new aspects of earthquake engineering in the area of performance besed design, accurate estimation of structural response becomes more important. this requires precise recognizing of relevant parameters in the behavior of structures and using proper methods for applying the effects of distribution of these parameters in the desired response. in this study the effect of distr...

The present study assesses the seismic performance of steel moment resisting frames (SMFs) retrofitted with different bracing systems. Two structural configurations were utilized: ordinary concentrically braces (OCBFs), buckling-restrained braces (BRBFs). A 7-story and 18-story steel perimeter SMFs were designed with insufficient lateral stiffness to satisfy code drift limitations in high seism...

In this paper, the seismic collapse probability of special steel moment-resisting frame (SSMRF) structures under near fault pulse-like and far fault ordinary ground motions is evaluated through fragility analysis. For this purpose, five sample frames with 3 to 15 stories are designed and imposed to the ground motion excitations with different characteristics. Fragility curves are derived for th...

This paper investigates the applicabilty of an innovative bracing, called Articulated Quadrilateral (AQ) bracing system, which uses shape memory alloys (SMAs), for retroffiting low-rise to high-rise vulnerable SMFRs against strong ground motions. The paper investigates brace fundamental engineering characteristics, design of the system and also configuration of the brace (the proportion of SMA ...