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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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Despite the significant amount of research effort devoted to understanding the structural behavior of grain-silos, each year a large number of silos still fails due to ba [...]
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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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Over the last fifty years, extensive researches have been conducted in the field of seismic isolation systems, innovative earthquake resisting systems and supplemental da [...]
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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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In recent years, the seismic behaviour of reinforced concrete bearing panels structures has been the object of several research works. This paper presents a summary of th [...]
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