Resilience issues have multidisciplinary relevance and, in recent years, attracted the interest of the scientific community. Within civil engineering sciences, resilience [...]

Resilience assessment is a complex and challenging process. It is interrelated to variety of aspects such as social, economic, ecological, etc. The objective of this rese [...]

This paper presents a new methodology for computing community resilience. This topic has gained attention quickly due to the recent unexpected natural and man-made disast [...]

The paper evaluates the level of inoperability and the resilience of the critical infrastructures networks of the New York Metropolitan Area affected by Hurricane Sandy i [...]

This paper presents a new ground motion modification and selection procedure that will be used for performing the response history analysis of structures. Nowadays, the a [...]

On May 20th and 29th 2012, two earthquakes of 5.9Mw and 5.8Mw have struck the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, causing 27 deaths and widespread damage. The epicentres were [...]

Over the last decade the amount of population injured by accident furniture overturning is increased and this trend is expected to continue. Non anchored body motion can [...]

Nowadays infrastructure networks are the basis of life and economy of every community, large or small. These infrastructures have always a certain degree of interdependen [...]

A methodology is presented for calculating the seismic performance of structural/nonstructural systems in a health care facility and developing rational strategies for in [...]