In this study, mass, stiffness and damping matrices of the Nosrat jacket; located in Persian Gulf; equipped with Semi Active Tuned Mass Damper (SATMD) system have been derived after modeling the structure in SACS software. Owing to huge number of the degrees of freedom in the model, computation of on-line control of SATMD was time consuming. For this purpose, the size of the model was reduced i...

In the present paper, nonlinear behavior of mass concrete simulated by smeared crack model is combined with Endurance Time Analysis (ETA) method for studying seismic response of arch dams. ETA is a time-history based dynamic pushover procedure in which special predesigned intensifying acceleration functions are used for analysis and estimation of structural responses in various performance leve...

In part II of this two-part tutorial we review the underlying theory of seismic interferometry and discuss various new advances. In the 1990’s the method of time-reversed acoustics was developed. This method employs the fact that the acoustic wave equation for a lossless medium is invariant for time-reversal. When ultrasonic responses recorded by piezoelectric transducers are reversed in time a...

This paper proposes a force-based design method for force-limiting deformable connections that are used to transfer seismic-induced horizontal forces from the floor diaphragms in buildings vertical elements of lateral seismic force–resisting systems with base flexural mechanisms (e.g., reinforced concrete shear walls). The determines limiting at each building. which transition linear-elastic po...

On the basis of the optimization-based approach to the analysis of massive ordered data sets, a new method is proposed for computer-aided interpretation of seismic exploratory data from the so-called crystalline basement of the Earth mantle, which underlies the relatively thin sedimentary cover having been, up to now, the almost exceptional object of seismic explorations. The seismic explorator...

The harmonic wavelet transform is employed to analyze various kinds of nonstationary signals common in aseismic design. The effectiveness of the harmonic wavelets for capturing the temporal evolution of the frequency content of strong ground motions is demonstrated. In this regard, a detailed study of important earthquake accelerograms is undertaken and smooth joint time-frequency spectra are p...

Seismic protective devices in the form of isolation and supplemental damping devices can be effective means in mitigating the seismic responses of structures. The required stiffness and damping values to achieve optimal performance depend on the characteristics of structures and ground motions. Instead of using actively controlled devices, one can select the passive devices to roughly mimic the...

past earthquakes have demonstrated that old rc bridges may be seismically vulnerable. bridge responses during the last decades illustrated the necessity of the seismic assessment of bridges especially those which were designed with old codes. in this research an existing concrete bridge representative of the most common bridges in the highway system in iran are studied. push over and nonlinear ...

Signals generated by moving tracked vehicles can be significantly affected by near-surface materials including pavements, compacted soils, shallow bed rock, and the water table. The ways that seismic signals depend on these surface layers are examined by analyzing impulsive point forces applied at the earth-air interface. Fields are calculated using a plane layered frequency domain wavenumber m...

Past earthquakes have demonstrated that old RC bridges may be seismically vulnerable. Bridge responses during the last decades illustrated the necessity of the seismic assessment of bridges especially those which were designed with old codes. In this research an existing concrete bridge representative of the most common bridges in the highway system in Iran are studied. Push over and nonlinear ...