<p>The pounding between adjacent buildings can cause both architectural and structural damages. The paper presents some aspects related to the Vrancea seismic motions pattern, a review of observed damages after a strong earthquake due to pounding of buildings ...

In this study we describe the seismic analysis of precursory patterns of a rockfall in the “Rappenlochschlucht”, a gorge located in the Vorarlberg Alps, Austria. The rockfall with an estimated volume of 15 000m³ occurred on 10 May 2011 (10:48:43 ...

<p>In this paper, a new approach for the stochastic analysis of finite element modeled underground pipeline system under earthquake excitations is proposed, where a new developed physical random earthquake model and the probability density evolution method ...

This paper presents results of numerical analyses for the seismic response of step-like ground slopes in uniform visco-elastic soil, under vertically propagating SV seismic waves.

<p>Presented here is an analysis of the effects of soil-foundation-structure interaction (SFSI) on seismic response of highway bridges. Of particular importance is the issue of input motions, their scaling and application to the SFS models. The analysis presented ...

A set of approximate, multivariable relations is established to evaluate soil effects on the peak horizontal acceleration, the peak horizontal velocity and the horizontal elastic response spectra (5% damping). The basic innovation of the approach is the use ...