... materials Seismic loading Finite element analysis The construction material of these panels is mainly ordinary quality steel. However, the use of aluminium has been demonstrated to be an efficient alternative (DeMatteis et al., 2007 , 2008b). Moreover, the use of stiffened plates made...

... devices provide structures with extra stiffness which in turns causes the change in overall building's fundamental period. Wenshen Pong can be contacted at: wspong@sfsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Damping Structural design Seismic loading Framed structures Earthquakes...

... 2009 Bridges Loading (physics) Force measurement Seismic loading Vehicles with ever increasing mass and speed characterize modern transport and their influence on forces in bridges cannot be realistically assessed using static approach only. Dynamic analysis that takes into account...

... engineering, parallel computing has its great application in this area. This paper fulfils an identified method need, and it is believed more and more research work will be devoted to this research field in the near future. Under seismic loads, the dynamic equation of the immersed tunnel system can...