Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2. Earthquake resilience of high-rise buildings: Case study of the 2011 Tohoku (Japan) earthquake
  • 3. Simulation of near-field pulse-like ground motion
  • 4. Critical characterization and modeling of pulse-like near-field strong ground motion
  • 5. Characteristics of earthquake ground motion of repeated sequences
  • 6. Modeling critical ground-motion sequences for inelastic structures
  • 7. Response of Nonlinear SDOF Structures to Random Acceleration Sequences
  • 8. Use of deterministic and probabilistic measures to identify unfavorable earthquake records
  • 9. Damage Assessment to Inelastic Structure Under Worst Earthquake Loads
  • 10 Critical earthquake loads for SDOF inelastic structures considering evolution of seismic waves
  • 11. Critical Correlation of Bi-Directional Horizontal Ground Motions
  • 12. Optimal placement of viscoelastic dampers and supporting members under variable critical excitations
  • 13 Earthquake response bound analysis of uncertain passively controlled buildings for robustness evaluation
  • 14 Earthquake response bound analysis of uncertain base-isolated buildings for robustness evaluation
  • 15. Future Directions.