The equivalent linear method is widely used in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering to calculate the accelerations at the surface of soil deposits subject to earthquakes of moderate intensity. The method approximately takes ...

Seismic designed structures are expected to resist minor level earthquakes without significant damage as well as major level earthquakes without collapse. Over the last years the number of seismic instrumentation networks ...

Reduced scale models of a single span bridge, a 12 bay truss bridge, and a numerical model of a multi-story shear building were used to evaluate the capability of Wavelet Transforms for damage detection and system ...

This thesis examined an approximate method to calculate the nonlinear seismic response of structures known as the Equivalent Linear Model (ELM) which seeks to approximate the true nonlinear response through a series of ...