Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Multi-hazard designs. Seismic excitation. Damage. Vehicle collisions. Tsunamis. Storm surges. Blast loads. Nonlinear finite ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Keywords: Self-centering; steel plate shear wall; moment frame; rocking connection; seismic response; resilient structure; seismic performance Abstract: This report presents the results of an ...

When the Sparc apartment in Bellevue is finished this summer, the 104-unit building will have a contemporary skin that disguises a new hybrid structural engineering system. The system, designed by ...

Indeco North America (INA), a Milford, Connecticut-based company that provides heavy-duty hydraulic breakers, compactors, crushers and pedestal booms for demolition, mining, recycling and road ...

BIG SUR – Slope stabilization efforts at Regent’s Slide on Highway 1 have been effective in helping sustained excavation activity at the site where traffic along the Big Sur Coast remains blocked.