Due to the recent code developments and of the growing attention given to the seismic safety of structures, especially after the last Italian earthquakes, the analysis an [...]

The Asinelli tower located in the city center of Bologna (northern Italy), whose construction began at the beginning of the XII century, is one of the tallest masonry tow [...]

In the present paper the method of equivalent static forces (or lateral force method), widely used in earthquake engineering especially in the phase of preliminary design [...]

The non-linear response of in-plan asymmetric systems has been extensively studied since the 1980s. Nevertheless, most of the research effort has been devoted to the stud [...]

Structures characterized by non coincident centre of mass CM and centre of stiffness CK (Fig. 1), also referred to as asymmetric (or eccentric) structures, develop a coup [...]

Within a Displacement-Based Seismic Design approach, the seismic input is described through displacement design spectra. Until now, these spectra are commonly obtained fr [...]

As recently also recalled by Priestley in a keynote lecture given at the 1st ECEES, Geneve 2006, the emphasis on Performance-Based Seismic Design has forced a re-examinat [...]

Response spectra have been used in the years not only to obtain estimations of the seismic response for given dynamic system in response spectral analysis, but also as a [...]

This paper proposes an innovative methodology for the seismic design of flat-bottom silos containing granular, grain-like material. In the general issues concerning the a [...]

Structural design deeply involves material strengths, which are obviously affected by uncertainty. As far as the material “concrete” is concerned, building codes (Ita [...]