The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory started its operation as a parasitic light source in 1973, becoming a fully dedicated user facility in 1992. A project was approved in 1998 to upgrade the storage ring to a third generation source. In order to sustain higher current in a tightly reconfigured magnetic lattice, it became necessary to upgrade the RF system from the present 5-cell cavit...

Future flavour physics experiments will be required in the second half of the next decade to either elucidate the flavour structure of new particles discovered at the LHC or to probe new physics at the multi-TeV scale. The planned upgrade of the LHCb detector involves at least five years of operating at ten times the current design luminosity, i.e. at about 2×10 33 cm −2 s −1. The aim is to col...

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Inter-story drift is an important indicator of structural behaviour in performance-based seismic analysis. This paper describes the definition and contents of the inter-story drift. Existing calculation methods for harmful and harmless inter-story drift are revisited first. Their advantages and shortcomings are compared. Finally, the generalized shear deformation of region, which seems to be su...

A simplified method for the seismic design of low-rise, base-isolated shear wall structures is proposed in MOC-2012. This simplified method is basically a hybrid method, where the design of the isolation system is a simpler version for the static method available in US guidelines for the design of base-isolated structures and the design of the superstructure essentially is an improved version o...

This paper proposes a simplified analytical model for seismic response prediction of concentrically braced frames. In the proposed approach, a multistory frame model is reduced to an equivalent shear-building one by performing a static pushover analysis. The conventional shear-building model has been improved by introducing supplementary springs to account for flexural displacements in addition...

Abstract: Absorbing boundary conditions are required to simulate seismic wave propagation in elastic media. In the first part of the paper, a number of relevant ABCs are reviewed with emphasis on practicality and ease of implementation. The second part of the paper describes the derivation of a new user element for seismic analysis in ABAQUS/Standard. The element is a combination of two ideas: ...

Plastic hinge models are widely used in earthquake engineering to predict the load-deformation relationships of reinforced concrete members. For the seismic assessment of bridges, it is appealing to use those relatively simple models if the response is predicted with sufficient accuracy. The applicability of these models to wall-type bridge piers with weak seismic detailing is examined. Flexura...

This study aims to develop seismic fragility curves for a typical pile-supported wharf. Fragility curve is one of the popular tools in seismic performance evaluation of a structure. The software FLAC2D was used to simulate the seismic performance of the wharf structure. Using eight time history records, occurred in past, as seismic loading, incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) was applied for sei...

The goals of seismic impact assessment can be achieved by seismic monitoring systems and seismic impact simulator. Seismic monitoring system, for the purpose of hazard analysis, local site effects analysis, vulnerability analysis, and estimation of loss, is one application of SHM in earthquake engineering. A prototype, conceptual seismic impact simulator integrating SHM, FEM, GIS, and Virtual R...