Computational Methods, Seismic Protection, Hybrid Testing and Resilience in Earthquake Engineering

Introduction.- Genesis of 3D-BASIS-its impact on nonlinear dynamic analysis of 3D base isolated structures and implementation in practice-and recent updates including the addition of new Negative Stiffness System.- The Genesis of IDARC and Advances in Macromodeling for Nonlinear Analysis of RC Structures.- A novel method for solving random eigenvalue problems.- Three dimensional Formulation of Large Dis-placement problems: the zipper frame example.- Simplified Seismic Evaluation of Structures using Adaptive Pushover Analysis.- Evaluation of the seismic capacity of nonstructural components.- Reference quantities and values for a possible interpretation of the data acquired from monitoring systems of historical buildings.- A versatile hybrid testing system and its application in developing hybrid simulation methods for NEESR projects.- Introduction to Resilience-Based design.- Modeling Economic Dimension of Community Resilience.- Seismic Performance of Health care facilities using Discrete Event simulation models.- On the seismic behavior of viscously coupled shear walls.- An energy-based method for the design of supplemental damping for inelastic structures.- Seismic response and stability of the rocking frame.- The dispersion of Concrete compressive strength of existing buildings.- Concrete strength variability as a source of irregularity for existing RC structures.- Evaluating the Efficiency of Recent Nonlinear Static Procedures on the Seismic Assessment of an Asymmetric Plan Building.