The objective of synthetic procedures for assessing the seismic vulnerability of structures is to sort out by inspection and limited elaboration the characteristics and c [...]

An earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.8 struck mid-western Nepal on April 25th 2015, followed by hundreds of aftershocks. This earthquake level is not uncommon in Nepal, where [...]

In relation to reinforced concrete high-rise buildings built in the Fifties and Sixties of the 20th Century in Chicago, it has acquired importance the re-analysis of thei [...]

A variety of computational procedures has been developed, over the years, for the evaluation of the seismic capacity of the architectural heritage. Due to the peculiariti [...]

In relation to Reinforced Concrete (RC) tall buildings built in the Fifties and Sixties of the 20th Century, it has acquired importance, in the last few years, to analyze [...]

Safety assessment performed with reference to a relevant case of historical reinforced concrete arch bridge is here discussed. The case study corresponds to the Italian b [...]

In the last decades, methods for assessing the seismic vulnerability of different types of structures and infrastructure have been developed. No criteria have been so far [...]