Reinforced concrete hollow piers are well known for the shear effects they so often reveal to be subjected to. This aspect is particularly true in the case of hollow pier [...]

This work presents the first step of a methodology to calculate monetary losses in reinforced concrete moment resisting buildings through an innovative and advanced metho [...]

State-of-the-art methods for the assessment of building fragility consider the structural capacity and seismic demand variability in the estimation of the probability of [...]

Reinforced concrete hollow piers have a seismic behavior similar to the one observed in structural walls, where the damage pattern and failure modes can be associated wit [...]

The adequate modelling of the nonlinear cyclic demand of structural elements is deemed crucial to ensure a reduced level of uncertainty in the numerical estimates of the [...]

Current seismic design codes require buildings to be designed for a given ground motion intensity level that is determined from a prescribed return period. The implicit a [...]

Development of earthquake risk mitigation strategies is a major concern of the seismology and seismic engineering communities with the main purpose to evaluate the impact [...]

Non-linear static procedures, such as pushover-based ones, have been continuously refined and improved along the past few years as a complement or even as an alternative [...]

The use of non-linear static procedures on seismic analysis of structures, mainly pushover-based ones, has recently known considerable developments. On that matter, studi [...]