Wide beams are part of the residential buildings’ construction habits in Italy as well as in other Mediterranean countries. In fact, undoubted advantages are provided b [...]

This paper is focused on the interaction of a railway tunnel with a slow-moving landslide in clay soil. The tunnel, built as a reinforced concrete box structure protected [...]

This paper reports on the results of an ongoing Research Project aimed at computing the risk of collapse in code-conforming new Italian buildings. A companion paper descr [...]

In the paper a parametric study on Reinforced Concrete (RC) frames representative of structural types widely present in the European building stock is carried out. Buildi [...]

The 2005-2008 DPC-Reluis Project, funded by the Italian Department of Civil Protection (DPC), is made up of ten Research Lines (RL). RL 2 specifically focuses on the seis [...]

Vulnerability is a probabilistic measure of how prone a structure is to damage under a certain shaking severity. A large number of buildings need to be analysed to have t [...]