At 3.36 am on 24th August 2016 a Mw 6.2 (USGS) earthquake struck the central region of Italy, with epicentre in the Apennines range, near the village of Accumuli and with [...]

In the context of infrastructure risk assessment, the application of fragility curves to elements such as bridges should mostly serve the purpose of quantifying the perfo [...]

The brittle collapse of reinforced concrete (RC) structures built before the introduction of detailed seismic design codes (pre1970’s) in recent earthquakes, has underl [...]

In this study, the seismic performance of two- and four- storey steel framed structures has been assessed and compared in terms of capacity and fragility. Full scale thre [...]

In this study, the anticipated cost throughout a structure’s operational period has been estimated, following a life cycle model. A scenario has been defined in order t [...]

Although probabilistic seismic risk assessment is now consolidated enough to escape academic boundaries and become widely used in several practical applications, China ha [...]

The use of existing seismic fragility and vulnerability information can provide a cheaper and faster route to completing seismic risk assessments than deriving a new set [...]

Ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) represent a key component in seismic risk analysis, and the consideration of both aleatory and epistemic sources of variability [...]

Reinforced concrete (RC) buildings represent the dominant type of construction in several earthquake prone countries and in the rest of the world. These structures are us [...]

The Taiwanese historic Dieh-Dou frames are prone to joint failures by element pull out or excessive rotation, during earthquake, as seen from reports and observations fol [...]