Publications

Dr. Islam has presented and authored numerous technical papers including many on Performance Based Seismic Engineering

and on seismic design, which have been published in national and international Professional Journals and Conference

Proceedings. Following is a list of selective publications related to performance-based design.

“Performance-Based Seismic Evaluation and Its Application to an Existing 25-Story Concrete High-Rise Building”, ASCE

Annual Structures Conference/ Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Conference, Chicago, April, 1996 and

Annual Meeting of The Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council, May, 1996.

“Application of Performance-Based Seismic Engineering to Strengthen a Non-Ductile Concrete Building”, SEAOC

Convention, 1998.

“Innovative Seismic Retrofit of Two High-Rise Buildings with Unique Challenges”, 9th US National & 10th Canadian

Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2010.

“Performance Based Seismic Retrofit of a High-Rise Tower Using Buckling Restrained Braced Frames,” 8th U.S. National

Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, 2006.

“Performance Based Seismic Evaluation of High-Rise Concrete Buildings,” presented at the Council of Tall

Buildings/ASCE Structures Conference, Chicago, April, 1996.

“Design Verification of a New Eccentric Braced Frame High-Rise Building Using Performance-Based Nonlinear

Analysis,” 2006 SEAOC Convention, Long Beach, 2006.

“Seismic Evaluation of Existing Building Using Performance Based Approach,” 1998 Structural World Congress, San

Francisco, April, 1998.

“Analysis and Retrofit of Two Very Unique Suspended Floor Towers Using Performance Based Approach”, Proceedings,

13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, August 1-6, 2004.

“Seismic Retrofit of a City Hall Using Buckling Restrained Braces on Nonlinear Analyses Including Soil-Structure

Interaction”, 9th US National & 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2010.

“Seismic Retrofit of a 14-story Suspended Floor Building using State-of-the-Art Analysis and Energy Dissipation

Devices”, 2001 Structural Engineers Association of California Annual Convention, September, 2001.

“Seismic Strengthening of a Non-ductile Concrete Building using Displacement Based Approach,” 6th U.S. National

Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Seattle, 1998.

“Buckling Restrained Brace Frame Applications for the Seismic Retrofit of Existing Buildings – U.S. case studies” (2008),

14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China, 2008.

“Hi-Tech Seismic Retrofit Solutions Compared for a Public Administration Building,” 2007 ASCE Structures Congress

Proceedings, Long Beach, 2006.

“Innovative Hi-Tech Solution for a Concrete Residential High-Rise Tower,” 2006 ASCE Structures Congress

Proceedings, St. Louis, 2006.

“Essential Facility Design Using Tension-Restraint Friction Pendulum Isolators,” 8th U.S. National Conference on

Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, 2006.

“Nonlinear Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis of a Hospital Building with Pile Foundations,” 8th U.S. National

Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, 2006.

SELECTIVE PUBLICATIONS

“Essential Facility Benefits from New Base Isolation Technology,” 2006 ASCE Structures Congress Proceedings, St.

Louis, 2006.

“Buckling Restrained Braced Frames Strengthen A Non-Ductile Concrete High-Rise Tower”, Proceedings, 2005 Annual

Convention of Structural Engineers Association of California, August, 2005.

“Innovative Base-Isolation Design of an Essential Facility” Proceedings, 2005 Annual Convention of Structural Engineers

Association of California, August, 2005.

“Seismic Retrofit of a Non-ductile Concrete Building Using Buckling Restrained Brace Frame (BRBF)”, Proceedings, 2004

Annual Convention of Structural Engineers Association of California, August, 2004.

“Seismic Retrofit of a Major Hospital Building Based on Nonlinear Analysis considering soil-structure interaction”,

Proceedings, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, August 1-6, 2004.

“Effects of Soil-Structure Interaction on the Seismic Performance of the Martin Luther King, Jr./ Drew Medical Center”,

Proceedings, 2003 Annual Convention, Structural Engineers Association of California, Squaw Creek, California,

September, 2003.

“Seismic Retrofit of a 14-story Suspended Floor Building using State-of-the-art Analysis and Energy Dissipation

Devices”, 7th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Boston, 2002.

“Seismic Retrofit of a Suspended Floor High-Rise Building Using an Energy Dissipation System”, ATC 17.2 conference,

April, 2002.

“Seismic Retrofit of a Unique High-Rise Building Using an Energy Dissipation System”, 2002 Los Angeles Tall Buildings

Structural Design Council Convention, April, 2002.

“Seismic Retrofit of a building using Passive Energy Dissipation Devices”, 2001 ASCE Conference, Washington DC, May,

2001.

“Seismic Retrofit of a building Using Passive Energy Dissipation Devices”, ASCE Structures Congress, Washington D.C.,

2000.

“Application of Performance-Based Seismic Engineering to Strengthen a Non-Ductile Concrete Building”, 1999.

“A Critical Review of the State-of-the-Art Analytical Tools and Acceptance Criteria in Light of Observed Response of

an Instrumented Non-ductile Concrete Frame Building,” 6th U.S. National Conf. on Eq. Engr., Seattle, 1998.

“Application of Nonlinear Analysis in Seismic Evaluation of an Existing Non-ductile Reinforced Concrete Building,”

ASCE Structures Congress, Portland, 1997.

“Analysis of the Response of an Instrumented 7-Story Non-ductile Concrete Frame Bldg. Damaged During the

Northridge Eq.,” The Structural Design of Tall Bldg. Journal, John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

“Analysis of the Northridge Earthquake: response of a Damaged Non-ductile Concrete Frame Building”, The Structural

Design of Tall Bldg. Journal, 1996.

“Analysis of Two Steel Moment-Resisting Frame Buildings Damaged During the Northridge Earthquake,” Technical

Report for National Institute of Standards & Technology, December, 1995

“Holiday Inn Building: Northridge Earthquake Damage Case Study”, SEAOC Convention, 1994.

SELECTIVE PUBLICATIONS (CONT’D)

“Seismic Retrofit of Two Historic Steel Buildings with Unreinforced Masonry Infill Walls”, 5th U.S. National Conf. on

EQ. Engineering, Chicago, July, 1994.

“The Response of Tall Buildings to Wind and Its Mitigation”, 2nd Conference on Tall Buildings in Seismic Regions, Los

Angeles, 1991.

“Mitigation of Wind-Induced Vibration of Tall Buildings”, Proceedings, Structures Congress, San Francisco, 1989.

“On Modeling the Inelastic Behavior of Structures: An Overview”, white paper, Cornell University, 1989.

SELECTIVE PUBLICATIONS (CONT’D)