building pounding occurs between two adjacent buildings with small gap or without sufficient separation distance. it leads to damage buildings during earthquake due to impact. many researchers have investigated building pounding based on impact force reduction and energy dissipation increase, when two buildings collide with each other. in numerical investigations, using specific link element, i...

considering recent developments in earthquake engineering, researchers has detected different effects of earthquakes far and near from the fault. investigations that have been done in this area show that near fault earthquakes have shorter time period comparing far fault earthquakes and in the velocity of near fault earthquakes, there are one or more impacting pulses with a big domain and perio...

The exact Cagniard-de Hoop solut ions for a point dislocation in half-space are used to construct models of the strong ground motion observed during the February 9, 1971 San Fernando earthquake (PC, = 6.4). By summing point dislocations distr ibuted over the fault plane, three-dimensional models of a f inite fault located in a half-space are constructed to study the ground motions observed at J...

This paper evaluates the potential of novel steel column bases to reduce residual drift risk buildings located at near-fault regions when installed post-tensioned self-centering moment-resisting frames (SC-MRFs). To this end, a prototype building is designed that consists either conventional (MRFs) or SC-MRFs equipped with base (SC-MRF-CBs). The MRFs and are used as benchmark frames. modelled i...