In several earthquake-prone countries, many buildings have not been designed by seismic regulations and others have been constructed according to old seismic codes. Effec [...]

Although many regions of the world are recognized as earthquake prone areas, a large part of the buildings spread on those territories suffer from structural deficiencies [...]

In the world, many existing buildings with RC framed structure were designed according to old seismic standards and, consequently, present structural deficiencies. Embedd [...]

A large part of existing buildings in the world has been designed without considering seismic provisions. These buildings are generally not adequate to resist seismic for [...]