This study assesses the effectiveness of seismic base isolation using triple friction pendulum isolators (TFPIs) as a retrofitting strategy for a five-story steel building. This building is ...

A technical report on the failure of the Canterbury Television building during an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand in February 2011 illustrates how important seismic codes are in saving lives.

WHEN designing a structure in earthquake-prone areas, the structural engineer’s main goal is to ensure the survival of its ...

Earthquake is one of the most destructive natural hazards faced by modern society and human beings. The effects from earthquake include strong ground shaking, surface rupturing and ground failure, ...

Large quakes produce shaking at a variety of frequencies. Some waves can travel hundreds of miles, and are amplified by local geological conditions. By Thomas Fuller Thomas Fuller has reported on why ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. This is the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Mindanao: a school building collapsed, a commercial ...

DURING the thirty seconds the earth shook in General Santos City, facades broke and whole structures collapsed. However, some of the older buildings, built with deep foundations, stood the shaking but ...