The holistic renovation of existing buildings is nowadays acknowledged as an essential and urgent action to reduce the environmental impact and increase the resilience of [...]

This paper reports on the results of an ongoing Research Project aimed at computing the risk of collapse in code-conforming new Italian buildings. A companion paper descr [...]

As a consequence of the large number of masonry buildings and their important historical value, there is an ongoing effort to investigate their structural behaviour. This [...]

The study of historical building goes beyond the modern principles of earthquake engineering and requires on one side a good knowledge of the building techniques at the t [...]

Stone masonry is one of the oldest type of construction in the world due to the natural availability of stones and the ease of construction. This construction typology is [...]