The research leading to this paper was prompted by the need to estimate strength and stiffness of Rigid Rocking Cores (RRCs) as essential elements of resilient earthquake resisting structures. While a limited number of such studies have been reported, no general study in terms of physical properties of RRCs, their appendages and adjoining structures have been published. Despite the growing know...

Researches show that the strength criterion is inadequate for design of structures against seismic loads. Since structures yield and experience plastic deformation under strong ground motion, considering structural damage with inelastic behavior may be a considerable criterion for design and control of the structures.In this paper, three steel structures with dual system consisting of intermedi...

Abstract Earthquakes are one of the most extinctive natural unpredictable disaster. The major reason earthquakes movement Tectonic plates and excitation in earth’s crust. It is observed that many conventional buildings have constructed without considering seismic provisions given by Indian standard codes to escape disastrous effect which results into collapse disintegration buildings. Therefore...

During strong earthquakes, structural damage usually occurs, resulting in a degradation of the overall stiffness affected structures. This produces modification dynamic properties structures, for instance, fundamental period vibration (T1). Hence, variation T1 could be used as an indicator seismic damage. In this article, assessment four generic typologies steel buildings was carried focused on...