Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Seismic performance. Vertical boundary elements (VBE). Analytical models. Horizontal boundary elements (HBE). Plastic mechanism. Earthquake-resistant designs.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider the problem of determining, within an elastic isotropic thin plate, the possible presence of an inclusion made of a different ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Seismic performance. Horizontal boundary elements (HBE). Plastic hinge formation. Pushover analyses. Nonlinear time-history analyses. Deformations. Ground ...