ISSN 0972-0405

 

 

ISET JOURNAL OF EARTHQUAKE TECHNOLOGY

 

 

Vol. 35

No. 4

December 1998

 

                            Special Issue: Passive Control of Structures

                                         Guest Editor: Professor Robert D. Hanson

 

CONTENTS

 

 Preface

No.

Paper
Page

 

 

 

 

375

Passive Control of Structures, the New Zealand Experience

63

 

W.H. Robinson

 

376

A State-of-the-Art Review of Seismic Isolation Scheme for Masonry Buildings

77

 

M. Qamaruddin

 

377

Earthquake Response Characteristics of Super-Multi-Span Continuous Menshin (Seismic Isolation) Bridges and the Seismic Design

95

 

Shigeki Unjoh and Michio Ohsumi

 

378

Response of Segmental Buildings to Random Seismic Motions

105

 

Tso-Chien Pan and Wei Cui

 

379

Effect of Viscous, Viscoplastic and Friction Damping on the Response of Seismic Isolated Structures

113

 

Nicos Makris and Shih-Po Chang

 

380

Seismic Analysis and Design of Structures with Viscoelastic Dampers

143

 

K.C. Chang, Y.Y. Lin and M.L. Lai

 

381

Seismic Design, Analysis, and Experiment of a Multi-Story Viscoelastically Damped Steel Frame

167

 

Christopher Higgins and Kazuhiko Kasai

 

382

Passive Fluid Viscous Damping Systems for Seismic Energy Dissipation

185

 

M.D. Symans and M.C. Constantinou

 

383

Seismic Retrofit of a Steel Moment Frame Structure using Viscoelastic Dampers

207

 

Ravindra Kanitkar, Michael Harms, Patrick Crosby, and Ming-Lai Lai

 

384

Effectiveness of LSB Connectors in Controlling Seismic Damage in Precast Panel Structures

221

 

O.A. Pekau and D. Hum

 

385

Near Field Seismic Response of Steel Moment Resisting Frame Retrofitted with Passive Friction Energy Dissipating Systems

243

 

Robert Tremblay, Andre Filiatrault, and Spyridon Kremmidas

 

386

A Push-Over Analysis Method for Axially Deformable Cross-Braced Frames with Dissipative Devices

263

 

P. Colajanni and M. Papia