1 Introduction.- 2. Earthquake resilience of high-rise buildings: Case study of the 2011 Tohoku (Japan) earthquake.- 3. Simulation of near-field pulse-like ground motion.- 4. Critical characterization and modeling of pulse-like near-field strong ground motion.- 5. Characteristics of earthquake ground motion of repeated sequences.- 6. Modeling critical ground-motion sequences for inelastic structures.- 7. Response of Nonlinear SDOF Structures to Random Acceleration Sequences.- 8. Use of deterministic and probabilistic measures to identify unfavorable earthquake records.- 9. Damage Assessment to Inelastic Structure Under Worst Earthquake Loads.- 10 Critical earthquake loads for SDOF inelastic structures considering evolution of seismic waves.- 11. Critical Correlation of Bi-Directional Horizontal Ground Motions.- 12. Optimal placement of viscoelastic dampers and supporting members under variable critical excitations.- 13 Earthquake response bound analysis of uncertain passively controlled buildings for robustness evaluation.- 14 Earthquake response bound analysis of uncertain base-isolated buildings for robustness evaluation.- 15. Future Directions.