Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings designed according to obsolete seismic codes or for gravity loads only are widespread in Italian and Mediterranean building stock. In s [...]

A growing attention has been addressed to the influence of infills on the seismic behavior of Reinforced Concrete buildings, also supported by numerical and experimental [...]

Seismic risk reduction is a fundamental task in earthquake prone regions. It affects also historical structures, which are characterized by a high degree of uncertainty d [...]

The seismic performance of reinforced concrete buildings cannot be fully understood aside from the beam-column joints. The capacity design (and the subsequent strength hi [...]

The USGS-PAGER Project is devoted to rapidly assess the consequences of severe earthquakes in the world. To improve the inventory and the vulnerability estimate, USGS mad [...]

This paper deals with the seismic performance of existing buildings and in particular on the moment resisting frame structures that could have their critical and weak poi [...]