This paper is aimed at serving the needs of structural engineering researchers who are seeking accelerograms that realistically represent time histories earthquake ground in support their own investigations. Every record identified with a specific scenario defined by magnitude–distance combination and site conditions; intensity presented records consistent ultimate limit state design requiremen...

This paper is aimed at giving structural designers guidance on how to make use of elastic site-specific response spectra for the dynamic modal analysis a structure in support its design. The pushover an RC building forming part non-linear static procedure (that can be used predict seismic demand without relying code-stipulated default R factor) also presented. Seismic structures based help achi...

SHAKE2000 and DEEPSOIL are the two most important programs to calculate the response analysis of soil layer. In order to analyze the similarities and differences between them, and to guide the improvement of the method and program of seismic response analysis of soil layer, 25 KiK net seismic records from 9 stations were selected as the research objects in this paper, from the aspects of surfac...

An analytical approach is presented to assess the response of offshore structures under seismic excitation. This paper evaluates the impacts of different fluid field models and the mass of equipment at the top of offshore structure which is simulated as lumped mass on the responses of offshore structures. To do this, two and three dimensional fluid field models are developed. In three dimension...

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of pin ± and spin structures on Riemannian manifolds with holonomy group Z k 2. For any n ≥ 4 (resp. n ≥ 6) we give examples of pairs of compact manifolds (resp. compact orientable manifolds) M1, M2, non homeomorphic to each other, that are Laplace isospectral on functions and on p-forms for any p and such that M1 admits a pin ± (res...

this paper presents the findings of experimental investigations into the effects of cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut and approach angle on the machinability of titanium (grade-5) alloy. also the comparison for the two different cutting materials inserts polycrystalline diamond (pcd) and cubic boron nitride (cbn) with similar tool geometry for similar machining parameters is also carried o...

nonlinear static procedure (nsp) is a common technique to predict seismic demands on various building structures by subjecting a monotonically increasing horizontal loading (pushover) to the structure. therefore, the pushover analysis is an important part of each nsp. accordingly, the current paper aims at investigating the efficiencyof various algorithms of lateral load patterns applied to the...

near-fault ground motions with long-period pulses can place severe demands on structures near an active fault. these pulse-type ground motions can be represented by pulse sequences with simple shapes. half-sinusoidal pulse sequences are used to approximate recorded ground motions and dynamic responses of sdof system under the excitation of these pulse sequences are studied. four cases are consi...