Earthquakes can cause significant damages to industrial liquid storage tanks resulting in losses of functionality, fires or environmental contamination due to the leakage [...]

The vulnerability of the urbanized territory against Na-Tech events has been recently raised because of the general unpreparedness of the countries in predicting effects [...]

A critical issue in the emergency management after the earthquake is the functionality of the main infrastructure (hospitals, road network, etc.) and the decision on thei [...]

When assessing the seismic performance of existing reinforced concrete buildings designed according to obsolete codes, one can identify potentially dangerous situations t [...]

CFRP has a light weight, high tensile strength, and a high resistance to the corrosion and fatigue. These properties make CFRP attracted increasing interests in civil eng [...]

In recent years, FRP (fiber-reinforced polymer/plastic) has been widely used in retrofitting of R/C structures due to its high tensile property. Many research works and a [...]

Worldwide research has now reached a level of integration where an effort towards the harmonization of procedures is absolutely needed. Such harmonization may regard, for [...]