Although many regions of the world are recognized as earthquake prone areas, a large part of the buildings spread on those territories suffer from structural deficiencies [...]

In the world, many existing buildings with RC framed structure were designed according to old seismic standards and, consequently, present structural deficiencies. Embedd [...]

Many existing structures in seismic vulnerable areas require seismic upgrading to prevent the collapse in case of extreme earthquakes. This paper proposes an approach bas [...]