This paper deals with 100 residential buildings from many parts of Osijek, the fourth largest city in Croatia, all built between 1962 and 1987. The aim of this paper is t [...]

The experience provided by the recent earthquakes showed that buildings with structural walls have had satisfactory performance for collapse prevention. Conversely, some [...]

Cumulative energy balance, during the earthquake action, defines the change of energies: potential, kinetic, dumping and hysteretic energy from the beginning to the end o [...]

The structure response parameters (natural period, elastic base shear capacity, post-elastic stiffness and damping) of an SDOF model are obtained by analysing a large num [...]