In areas where the level of seismic activity is significant, acceleration demands on nonstructural components located at the upper floors of multistory building structures might be quite substantial, particularly if the ...

Studied in this paper is the inelastic seismic behavior and design of asymmetric multistory buildings emphasizing, primarily, the use of story shear and torque histories. The following six different structural characteristics ...

The good seismic performance of free-plan buildings during the last M-w = 8.8, February 27, 2010 Chile earthquake, deserves special attention in order to understand the clues for such behavior. Also, and because of economic ...

This paper examines different evacuation strategies for systems where several rooms evacuate through the same means of egress, using microscopic pedestrian simulation. As a case study, a medium-rise office building is ...