Publications related to 1994 Northridge earthquake

Towards instability-free welded moment connections

Dimitrios Lignos, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

In capacity-designed steel moment resisting frames (MRFs), inelastic deformations are mostly concentrated in the steel beams and the column fixed ends of the first story, while the participation of the panel zones in energy dissipation is limited. In such ...

2023

Experimental Study to Validate an Improved Approach to Design Acceleration-Sensitive Nonstructural Components

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

Nonstructural components in buildings can be subjected to very large acceleration and deformation demands during earthquakes. This is particularly true for flexible components that are tuned or nearly tuned to one of the modal frequencies of the supporting ...

Applied Technology Council, Sponse2022

Soil-Structure Interaction effects on the seismic behavior of steel moment resisting frames: Preliminary assessment

Dimitrios Lignos

The purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of soil-structure interaction and site effects on the seismic behavior of steel moment-resisting frames, with a view to describing the underlying “physics” behind the damage mechanisms triggered. We exam ...

European Earthquake Engineering Association2022

Steel Sheet Sheathed Cold-Formed Steel Framed In-line Wall Systems. I: Impact of Structural Detailing

Fani Derveni

The North American construction industry has seen substantial growth in the use of cold-formed steel (CFS) framing for midrise buildings in recent years. In seismic zones, CFS-framed buildings utilize shear walls to provide the primary lateral resistance t ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2022

EaRL: An Open-Source Software for Earthquake Risk, Loss and Lifecycle Assessment

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

Evaluating earthquake-induced losses, such as structural repair costs, downtime and casualties, is becoming a standard practice within the performance-based earthquake engineering framework. Nonetheless, this evaluation is a demanding task that requires de ...

2021

Vibration Suppression Through Variable Stiffness and Damping Structural Joints

Gennaro Senatore

This paper introduces a new semi-active strategy for vibration control of truss and frame structures equipped with variable stiffness and damping joints which consist of a shape memory polymer (SMP) core reinforced by an SMP-aramid composite skin. When the ...

2020

A model-based data-interpretation framework for post-earthquake building assessment with scarce measurement data

Ian Smith, Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland

Recent earthquake events throughout the world have once again exposed the vulnerability of buildings with respect to earthquakes. It is unlikely and unsustainable to design and - especially in regions with low-to-moderate seismic hazard – to retrofit all b ...

2019

Ductility reduction factor formulations for seismic design of RC wall and frame structures

Katrin Beyer, Matteo Zerbin

Seismic design of standard structures is typically founded on a force-based design approach. Over the years this approach has proven robust and easily applicable by design engineers and - in combination with capacity design principles - it provides a good ...

2019

Nonmodel-based framework for rapid seismic risk and loss assessment of instrumented steel buildings

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

This paper proposes a nonmodel-based framework for estimating story-based engineering demand parameters (EDPs) in instrumented steel frame buildings with steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs). The proposed framework utilizes a wavelet-based damage-sensitive ...

Elsevier2018

Earthquake-Induced Collapse Risk and Loss Assessment of Steel Concentrically Braced Frames

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

This paper quantifies the collapse risk and earthquake-induced losses for a wide range of archetype buildings with special concentrically braced frames (SCBFs). The collapse risk and expected economic losses associated with repair, demolition and collapse ...

2018

Earthquake-Induced Collapse Risk and Loss Assessment of Steel Concentrically Braced Frames

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

This paper quantifies the collapse risk and earthquake-induced losses for a wide range of archetype buildings with special concentrically braced frames (SCBFs). The collapse risk and expected economic losses associated with repair, demolition and collapse ...

2018

Proposed methodology for earthquake-induced loss assessment of instrumented steel frame buildings: building-specific and city-scale approaches

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

The performance-based earthquake engineering framework utilizes probabilistic seismic demand models to obtain accurate estimates of building engineering demand parameters. These parameters are utilized to estimate earthquake-induced losses in terms of prob ...

2017

Effect of Modeling Assumptions on the Earthquake-Induced Losses and Collapse Risk of Steel-Frame Buildings with Special Concentrically Braced Frames

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

This paper quantifies the collapse risk and earthquake-induced economic losses of steel-frame buildings with special concentrically braced frames designed in urban California. A probabilistic building-specific loss estimation methodology that can explicitl ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2017

Approximate Method for Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

bstract A wide range of approximate methods has been historically proposed for performance-based assessment of frame buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake. Most of these methods typically require a detailed analytical model representation of the resp ...

International Association of Earthquake Engineering2017

Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of Steel Columns for Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Steel Moment Frames

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Alexander Riley Hartloper

This paper summarizes the findings of a long term experimental program corroborated with detailed finite element simulations that investigated the hysteretic behavior of wide-flange columns in steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) designed in highly seismic ...

2017

Earthquake-induced loss assessment of steel frame buildings with special moment frames designed in highly seismic regions

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

This paper discusses an analytical study that quantifies the expected earthquake-induced losses in typical office steel frame buildings designed with perimeter special moment frames in highly seismic regions. It is shown that for seismic events associated ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Mechanical Model for flexural behaviour of slab-column connections under seismically induced deformations

Aurelio Muttoni, Katrin Beyer, Ioannis Sokratis Drakatos

Reinforced concrete (RC) flat slabs supported on columns are one of the most widely used structural systems for office and industrial buildings. In regions of medium to high seismic risk RC walls are typically added as lateral force resisting system and to ...

4th fib Congress, Mumbai2014

New experimental findings on the stability of thin reinforced concrete walls

Katrin Beyer, João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida, Angelica Rosso

Damage to structural walls in the recent earthquakes in Chile (2010) and New Zealand (2011) demonstrated that modern reinforced concrete (RC) walls may not achieve the expected ductile response and these walls could possibly fail due to global and local bu ...

2014

Laboratory Investigation on Seismic Response of Rock Fractures Filled with Granular Materials

Wei Wu

Filling materials may exist in all scales of rock fractures, not only influencing seismic wave attenuation, but controlling rock mass instability. The objective of this study is to experimentally investigate the seismic response of rock fractures filled wi ...

EPFL2013

Fatigue analysis of unanchored steel liquid storage tank shell-to-base connections during earthquake induced uplift

Alain Nussbaumer, Gary Scott Prinz, Gustavo Cortes

During severe seismic events the base of unanchored steel liquid-storage tanks can uplift, causing large inelastic rotation demands at the shell-to-base connections. With repeated cycles of uplift, these shell-to-base connections are susceptible to low-cyc ...

2012