<p>The research presented in this thesis focuses on tunnel&ndash;building interaction, and more specifically on buildings with shallow foundations. </p> <p>The focus of this work is the effect of tunnelling on concrete framed buildings. The research deals ...

Impact between structures of bridge sections can play a major, unexpected role in seismic structural damage. Linear and non-linear models are developed to analyze structural impact and response of two single-degree-of-freedom structures, representing adjacent ...

All buildings are subjected to some degree of torsion which in turn changes the member demands from that of translation only. Torsional effects on buildings subjected to earthquakes are not found directly in structural analysis unless full three-dimensional ...

From February 22 to March 19, 2011, a team organized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center investigated the effects of the Christchurch earthquake.

<p>The Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, received a project on developing a Handbook on seismic retrofit of buildings. The Handbook will contain seventeen chapters covering different aspects of seismic retrofit. The ...

This report describes three centrifuge tests carried out as part of the NEMISREF project, at 50g,to investigate the performance of cemented zones as a liquefaction remediation measure beneaththe base of existing buildings.

Stone buildings using fully dressed rectangularized stone units, or cast solidblocks consisting of large stone pieces in cement concrete mix 1:3.6 may be built according to the details given in Chapter 4.Those also generally apply to the random-rubble and ...

<p>GPS technology with high sampling rates allows scientifically justified and economically feasible dynamic measurements of relative displacements. In this paper is described an experiment whereby the displacement responses of a simulated tall building are ...