Bidirectional shaking table tests are performed on standard hollow brick partitions, subjecting the partitions simultaneously to interstory relative displacements in thei [...]

In a decision-making framework within the context of performance-based design, life-cycle cost can be regarded as a suitable benchmark performance variable to quantify an [...]

People living in a city represent the most important agents of the urban system. In fact, people organize bits of the city, while organizing their own lives, hence direct [...]

Countries around the world have had to face huge economic losses due to natural disasters over the past decade. This, of course represents a source of great concern for N [...]

In the first phase of the emergency management after the April 6, 2009, L’Aquila earthquake, field inspections were carried out through the AeDES form, a first level su [...]

Cloud Analysis is based on simple regression in the logarithmic space of structural response versus seismic intensity for a set of registered records. This method is part [...]

In the immediate aftermath of a strong earthquake, the road networks play a crucial role in rescue and recovery operations. The damaged infrastructure may lose their tran [...]

The paper deals with the in plane seismic performance assessment of internal partitions. A finite element model capable to capture the inter-story drift ratio which cause [...]

In economically advanced countries, particularly in Europe and Italy, most of existing bridges have been constructed prior to 1980, before the advancement in earthquake e [...]

Recent earthquakes showed that most existing structures are characterized by high seismic vulnerability. In particular, the observations of the damages have individuated [...]