STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, OPTIMIZATION, AND DESIGN

	Tabu Search Algorithm for Optimizing Pile Foundation Layout on Footing of Residential House Takahiro Hara and Buntara S. Gan
	An Enhanced Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Optimum Design of Steel Frames Mahmoud R. Maheri and M. Talezadeh
	Use of a New Phenomenological Model to Capture the Nonlinear Behavior of Bracing Members Mojtaba Farahi and Saeed Erfani
	Stress Function of Simply Supported Concrete Beam with a Fracture Process Zone under Uniform Load Shujin Duan and Quanmin Guo
	Estimation of Predominant Period of Ground Surface Layer using the Inverse Distance Weighting Method Hayato Nishikawa and Tomiya Takatani