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Retrofitting of Irregular Structures for Seismic Loads Using Rocking Walls
Self-centring rocking walls are expected to regulate the inter-story drifts (ISDs) of vertically irregular moment resisting frame structures and to...
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Seismic Behavior of Stepback Buildings with Slope Stability: An Empirical–Numerical Study
Many multistoried reinforced concrete farmed buildings are being constructed in hilly areas and on hill slopes, due to urbanization and...
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Numerical study on bearing capacity of geocell-reinforced strip footings resting on slopes
Most research studies on the behavior of footings on geocell-reinforced slopes were conducted using experimental model tests on small-scale slopes....
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Evaluation of load-settlement behavior of shallow footings using hybrid MLP-evolutionary AI approach with ER-WCA optimization
In this study, the multilayer perceptron (MLP) model underwent optimization using evolutionary artificial intelligence algorithms. This optimization...
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Disaster characteristics and influence range of earth fissure on nearby structures
The differential movement on the hanging wall and the footwall of an earth fissure creates inevitable damage to the structures near the fissure,...
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Response of piers installed in sand near slo** ground under inclined loading
Foundations supporting electrical transmission line structures are subjected to inclined loads due to gravity dead and live loads, and lateral wind...
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Seismic response of mid-rise steel MRFs: the role of geometrical irregularity, frequency components of near-fault records, and soil-structure interaction
Near-fault (NF) ground motions may induce higher demands on structures compared to far-fault records. This is often due to the velocity pulses,...
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Numerical Investigations on Response of Multistorey Building Frames Subjected to Adjacent Unsupported Excavations
Due to rapid urbanization, open excavations are not uncommon these days. However, many issues are arising during the execution of unsupported open...
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Imaging Subsurface Structures at Fast Eroding Coastal Areas in Northern Bengkulu Using 2D Seismic MASW Method
Coastal erosion is a global problem, affecting many countries around the world. On cliffed coastlines, erosion can be intermittent and sudden, posing...
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Seismic response of irregular RC buildings designed for gravity and seismic loads
Irregular reinforced concrete framed buildings are peculiar and their seismic response is difficult to predict using simplified approaches. The...
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Nonlinear time history analysis on irregular RC building on slo** ground
Strong earthquakes routinely occur in many places of the world, destroying all sorts of structures and taking lives. Construction must take place on...
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The dynamic amplification effect of a site with earth fissures: a case study in the Taiyuan Basin, China
As a widespread geological hazard, the disaster development process of earth fissures is irreversible and difficult to control, which seriously...
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Shell folded footings using different angles and EPS cavity filling: experimental study
Shell folded footings have drawn the interest of researchers for decades as an alternative to typical flat isolated footings because folded footings...
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Extension of the improved upper-bound pushover analysis for seismic assessment of steel moment resisting frames with setbacks
Pushover analysis technique is a key tool for the performance-based seismic design that has been largely adopted in the new generation of seismic...
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A process-geometric visualization of bluff erosion hazards on the Pennsylvania coast of Lake Erie, United States
The Lake Erie coast of Pennsylvania on the North American Great Lakes is dominated by unconsolidated, erosional, Quaternary-age bluffs. This paper...
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Habitability of low-lying socio-ecological systems under a changing climate
Climate change will push the planet worryingly close to its boundaries, across all latitudes and levels of development. One question therefore is the...
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Integrated approach between seismic resilience and vulnerability indexes with regularity index for vertical irregularity planar frames risk assessment
Most international design standards prohibit or necessitate alternative seismic analysis and design for building frames having vertical...
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Performance-based evaluation of reinforced concrete buildings at vertical geometric regularity limit
To make the design process, simplified; worldwide seismic codes incorporate response reduction factor (R), to account for the nonlinear response of...
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Classifying buildings according to seismic vulnerability using Cluster-ANN techniques: application to the city of Murcia, Spain
The seismic vulnerability of a city is a degree of its intrinsic susceptibility or predisposition to sustain damage or losses stemming from seismic...
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Municipal perspectives on managed retreat and flood mitigation: A case analysis of Merritt, Canada after the 2021 British Columbia flood disaster
In response to the catastrophic flooding that occurred in British Columbia, Canada in November 2021, the City of Merritt is facing a difficult...
