Severe earthquakes often result in significant damage to buildings, infrastructures, and cause casualties. For example, the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan caused over 20,000 deaths and missing, and 190,000 buildings were damaged (Okada et al., 2011; Takewaki et al., 2011). Protecting building structures under earthquakes is of great concern in earthquake-prone countries (Mazzolani, 2001; Azinovic et al., 2016; Tesfamariam, 2022; Zhang et al., 2022). To address this challenge, building isolation systems are applied to mitigate seismic hazards (Morgan, 2007; Mohammed and Mohd, 2011; Takewaki et al., 2013). The aim of applying building isolation is to reduce either the storey or inter-storey vibrations transmitted from the seismic ground motions (Hu, 2014). In practice, two types of passive building isolation systems are commonly used, which are the base isolation system (Jangid and Datta, 1995; Deb, 2004) and the super-structure isolation s...
The David Wilson Library, Leicester This is the library that is currently functioning at the University of Leicester. To be frank, It is not old at all, According to Associated Architects (2023) the project was completed in 2008 with a total value of 25 million pounds. I can see the beauty of this project since it is coherent with the environment around it; its design goes with the engineering building which is right next to it. (My picture, sourced from Google Earth) According to Associated Architects(2023), this library comprises 38 kilometers of shelving that allows for a 20-year expansion in the printed collections, 1,500 reader places of all kinds (including a dedicated Postgraduate Area, IT training, and group study rooms), and a student development zone with the Student Learning Centre, Careers Service, bookshop, café, 500-seat lecture theatre, seminar rooms, Accessibility Centre, and Special Collections Archive. Which makes it a general library for all courses, and that i...
1- I went to wix and signed uo with my email address then started answering question about the website that I was trying to make. 2- Then I chose a template and customized the main title, which will then be changed to: WELCOME TO MOUAD KHIRI'S ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 3- The software generated a description of my website, then I changed the background 4- Then again I changed the background to something less abstract yet more related to my field whilst also matching the theme. I found the background in unsplash that I thought would match 5- after that, I changed the font and merged the backgrounds together. I think this background is a good choice because it draws the eyes to the center whilst also matching the dark theme of the website. 7- I wrote an about me paragraph as an introduction to my work. but then I changed the background...
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