State-of-the-art methods for the assessment of building fragility consider the structural capacity and seismic demand variability in the estimation of the probability of [...]

Current seismic design codes require buildings to be designed for a given ground motion intensity level that is determined from a prescribed return period. The implicit a [...]

The recent drive for the use of a single-degree-of-freedom representation in displacement-based design and assessment of 3D reinforced concrete (RC) structures has signif [...]

An earthquake damage scenario for the city of Messina, Italy, has been carried out with the aim of forecasting the distribution of different levels of structural damage w [...]

Earthquake loss modelling is a multidisciplinary activity which requires the collection of databases of earthquake activity, ground conditions, ground-motion prediction m [...]

A risk management framework has recently been developed to assign priorities for the rehabilitation of school buildings in Italy, and to give timescales within which retr [...]

A Simplified Pushover-Based Earthquake Loss Assessment method (SP-BELA) for the definition of vulnerability curves has recently been proposed. A prototype structure is in [...]

Masonry structures constitute a high percentage of the European building stock. However, the inherent variability of the material properties and other epistemic uncertain [...]

A Displacement-Based Earthquake Loss Assessment (DBELA) methodology for urban areas, which compares the displacement capacity of the building stock with the displacement [...]