... to the “pure shear” steel panels. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Steels Construction materials Seismic loading Finite element analysis Steel plate shear walls are frequently used in Japan, USA and Canada in order to improve the seismic performance of new and existing buildings...

... and further explore the cost factors by comparing different building seismic performance objectives throughout design. Wenshen Pong can be contacted at: wspong@sfsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Damping Structural design Seismic loading Framed structures Earthquakes...

...). Ivica Kožar can be contacted at: ivicak@gradri.hr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 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...

... more complex procedures and more CPU time, the CPU time can exceed 65 percent of total CPU time just as Table IV lists. To solve the difficulties above, explicit time integration and DDM based on parallel contact algorithm are used in this analysis. Under seismic loads, the dynamic equation...