The paper explores the effects of asymmetry in plan owing to the occurrence of slender wings in massive monumental and historical URM buildings that belong to the postren [...]

When a reinforced concrete (RC) column is subjected to lateral sway as a result of earthquake action, the large strain demand in the end sections is supported by developm [...]

Load-bearing unreinforced masonry (URM) structures present several special characteristics that set them apart from common engineered construction, such as weak diaphragm [...]

The plastic hinge length is defined as the length over a seismically swaying column, where flexural moments exceed the yielding capacity. This length, measured from the c [...]

This paper is a comprehensive state of the art background document on European seismic design provisions which was assembled in support of the development of design guide [...]

The question of systematically calculating the shear strength of reinforced concrete (R.C.) elements in flexure-shear reversals with or without axial load has been centra [...]

Today, about 60 years after the proliferation of reinforced concrete in urban construction, structures that are classified as heritage buildings carrying a significant va [...]

Seismic assessment of reinforced concrete structures depends on strength values that can be estimated with sufficient accuracy only when the modes of failure are ductile. [...]

In this paper, application of a rapid, yet efficient methodology for the evaluation of failure modes of lightly reinforced substandard buildings is presented. The method [...]

This paper examines the seismic behavior of three typical traditional houses in the old city of Xanthi using simulation models and the possibilities of restoration and op [...]