This paper presents a study to statistically characterize the joint earthquake-snow hazard and subsequently develop maximum inter-story drift fragility curves for a series of archetype woodframe structures. Of particular focus are structures built in heavy-snow regions where seismic design may govern (and hence the roof snow load contributes additional seismic mass). While load standards such a...

This research presents the impact of base fixity on seismic analysis including soil-structure interaction (SSI) considering linear and nonlinear soil-foundation interface conditions. A set of inelastic time history analyses using a yielding singledegree-of-freedom structural system with different fixity conditions at the base are used. The base fixity configurations considered are: 1) fixed-bas...

Article history: Received: 14.5.2014. Received in revised form: 20.1.2015. Accepted: 14.5.2015. In order to determine the deformation capacity of reinforced concrete composite shear wall with concealed bracings at different performance levels, some previous research of domestic scholars are reviewed by analyzing 89 shear wall specimens using a performance-based seismic design method. The perfor...

displacement coefficient method (dcm) stipulated in the asce 41-06 standard is becoming the preferred method for seismic rehabilitation of buildings in many high-seismic-hazard countries. applications of the method for non-building constructions such as bridges are beyond the scope of this standard. thus its application to this kind of structure should be approached with care. target displaceme...

The computation of a dynamic displacement field between pairs of seismic traces has numerous geophysical applications including the estimation of displacement vectors in time lapse seismic, Pto S-wave image registration and residual moveout correction. In this paper, I present a cross-correlation based methodology for the estimation of small time displacements between signals followed by stretc...

Pushover analysis application development is greatly increased in recent years and numerous advanced methods to evaluate the seismic pushover are provided. Because these methods have been proposed mainly for building structures and given the fundamental differences between the behavior of bridge structures and buildings using pushover methods on the bridge structure with the uncertainties faced...

Passing seismic waves released by large-magnitude earthquakes may affect geological systems located thousands of miles far from the epicenter. TheM9.0 Tohoku earthquake struck on 11 March 2011 in Japan. We detected local seismic activity at the Larderello-Travale geothermal field, Italy, coinciding with the maximum amplitudes of the Rayleigh waves generated by the Tohoku earthquake. We suggest ...

The main objective of this article is to assess the expected seismic damage in reinforced concrete buildings from a probabilistic point of view by using Monte Carlo simulation. To do that, the seismic behavior of the building is studied by using random capacity obtained by considering the mechanical properties of the materials as random variables. Starting from the capacity curves, one can obta...

S U M M A R Y We analyse radar interferometric and GPS observations of the displacement field from the 1995 July 30 Mw = 8.1 Antofagasta, Chile, earthquake and invert for the distribution of slip along the co-seismic fault plane. Using a fixed fault geometry, we compare the use of singular-value decomposition and constrained linear inversion to invert for the slip distribution and find that the...

in this paper, the effect of bedrock inclination on seismic performance of slopes is investigated. the study was conducted based on dynamic analysis of different slopes, evaluation of the earthquake acceleration in sliding mass, and calculating the permanent displacement of the slope, using newmark sliding block. the investigation indicates that variation of the bedrock inclination may cause th...