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Due to the recent code developments and of the growing attention given to the seismic safety of structures, especially after the last Italian earthquakes, the analysis an [...]
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The Asinelli tower located in the city center of Bologna (northern Italy), whose construction began at the beginning of the XII century, is one of the tallest masonry tow [...]
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In the present paper the method of equivalent static forces (or lateral force method), widely used in earthquake engineering especially in the phase of preliminary design [...]
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The non-linear response of in-plan asymmetric systems has been extensively studied since the 1980s. Nevertheless, most of the research effort has been devoted to the stud [...]
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Structures characterized by non coincident centre of mass CM and centre of stiffness CK (Fig. 1), also referred to as asymmetric (or eccentric) structures, develop a coup [...]
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Within a Displacement-Based Seismic Design approach, the seismic input is described through displacement design spectra. Until now, these spectra are commonly obtained fr [...]
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As recently also recalled by Priestley in a keynote lecture given at the 1st ECEES, Geneve 2006, the emphasis on Performance-Based Seismic Design has forced a re-examinat [...]
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Response spectra have been used in the years not only to obtain estimations of the seismic response for given dynamic system in response spectral analysis, but also as a [...]
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This paper proposes an innovative methodology for the seismic design of flat-bottom silos containing granular, grain-like material. In the general issues concerning the a [...]
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Structural design deeply involves material strengths, which are obviously affected by uncertainty. As far as the material “concrete” is concerned, building codes (Ita [...]
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