The protection of historic masonry structures against earthquakes constitutes a rather complex problem. The calculation of their anticipated response involves significant [...]

This study presents a new definition of the strong motion duration, combining the alternative bracketed and significant duration definitions. Based on the time integral o [...]

This study presents a new method to estimate the earthquake input energy for medium to long period structures. The method is based on a new definition of the strong motio [...]

The protection of several types of museum collections against seismic hazard is increasingly gaining the interest of scientists and governments, as their damage is in man [...]

This paper compares the characteristics of earthquake ground-motion records obtained in near-fault regions of Greece with well known international near-fault records and [...]