Keywords: Seismic performance. Nonstructural components. Static friction coefficient. Kinetic friction coefficient. Rigid blocks. Block-type components. Tilt and pull tests. Dynamic analyses.

Optimization problems with partial differential equations as constraints arise widely in many areas of science and engineering, in particular in problems of the design. The solution of such class of ...

Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what is the farthest overhang you can achieve before the entire structure topples? Is it possible for the tower to extend a full block length beyond ...