Literature shows a distribution of importance in the economic losses after earthquakes of: a) structural elements, b) nonstructural elements, and c) contents. These repor [...]

Most of preliminary evaluation methods to accomplish the seismic vulnerability of bridges consider as an evaluation parameter the substructure irregularity. This paramete [...]

This article shows an analytical description of the damages caused by different plan irregularities, during seismic events of different magnitudes. Although these effects [...]