The employment of Nonlinear Static Procedures (NSP) in the seismic assessment of existing structures (or design verification of new ones) has gained considerable populari [...]

Earthquake loss modelling is a multidisciplinary activity which requires the collection of databases of earthquake activity, ground conditions, ground-motion prediction m [...]

The manner in which the horizontal slab in 3D buildings, or better the rigid diaphragm effect, is modeled may influence the response of the structure when subjected to se [...]

A blind analysis contest for a full-scale four-story building was announced in 2007 by the executive committee of the E-Defense steel building project, sponsored by the N [...]

Nonlinear response-history analyses are used by the engineering community as the most reliable technique to estimate structural behaviour. In such analyses, besides an ad [...]

A risk management framework has recently been developed to assign priorities for the rehabilitation of school buildings in Italy, and to give timescales within which retr [...]

The current work deals with the comparison between the numerical results of two different frame element formulations, namely the classical displacement-based element vers [...]

Fibre beam-column elements thus far proved to be very accurate in the simulation of flexure dominated behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) frames. However, when the shea [...]

Vulnerability is a probabilistic measure of how prone a structure is to damage under a certain shaking severity. A large number of buildings need to be analysed to have t [...]

A Simplified Pushover-Based Earthquake Loss Assessment method (SP-BELA) for the definition of vulnerability curves has recently been proposed. A prototype structure is in [...]