Capacity design procedure for the earthquake-resistant reinforced concrete (RC) structures is effective when actual member capacities do not greatly exceed the assumed design capacities. Moreover, RC members are expected ...

Casualty data from Latur (1993) and Bhuj (2001) earthquakes in India are analyzed to study the relationship of death rates with shaking intensity. A strong correlation is noted between intensity and death rates (correlation ...

In-situ soil slopes and embankments are often reinforced with nails to improve their static and seismic performance. Michalowski and You (2000) developed an approximate method based on kinematic approach of limit analysis ...

Nonlinear seismic analysis of soil-well-pier (SWP) system of a typical bridge supported on well foundation is carried out considering soil nonlinearity while the well and the pier are assumed to behave linearly. Nonlinear ...