The assessment of the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings (in particular for public or strategic) is frequently based on strongly simplified methods than those us [...]

In order to mitigate the seismic risk, politician decision-makers, insurance companies, banks, professional engineers, private owners, (despite operating at different ter [...]

In the paper a parametric study on Reinforced Concrete (RC) frames representative of structural types widely present in the European building stock is carried out. Buildi [...]

Vulnerability is a probabilistic measure of how prone a structure is to damage under a certain shaking severity. A large number of buildings need to be analysed to have t [...]