A new study in Civil Engineering Sciences reports a magnitude-based incremental dynamic analysis method, or MIDA, for evaluating structures exposed to near-fault earthquakes. Using a cable-stayed ...

Assessing how bridges and other critical infrastructure will perform during earthquakes is a central problem in earthquake engineering. That problem ...

Keywords: seismic sidesway collapse; simplified analysis; nonlinear static (pushover); incremental dynamic analysis (IDA); collapse margin ratio (CMR); FEMA P695; soft story; high performance ...