Many existing bridges were designed without adequate consideration of seismic risk. The full or partial collapse of even one major bridge in a city or community would have destroying results. There has been focuses on developing fragility-based seismic vulnerability of existing usual bridges in Iran or support decision making on seismic upgrade. This article focuses on developing performance b...

Various methods have been presented to improve the performance of buildings against earthquakes. Friction damper device is one of the energy dissipation devices that appropriately absorbs and dissipates the input energy and decreases displacements. In this paper, the possibility of using endurance time method to determine the efficiency index and optimum slip load for these dampers was investig...

the artificial accelerograms have been developed for assessing the dynamic response ofstructures. considering seismological properties of the site are necessary for the best simulation ofaccelerograms. the real recorded accelergrams for simulating earthquake phenomenon are used in thearma model. this is due to the fact that the arma model can be considered more advantageous than theothers.in th...