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Piping systems, a vital part of energy industries, e.g. petrochemical, oil & gas and chemical plants, have been found particularly vulnerable under earthquake loading [...]
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Earthquakes can cause significant damages to industrial liquid storage tanks resulting in losses of functionality, fires or environmental contamination due to the leakage [...]
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The vulnerability of the urbanized territory against Na-Tech events has been recently raised because of the general unpreparedness of the countries in predicting effects [...]
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2016 Central Italy earthquakes, whose three major events occurred between 29 August and 30 October with epicenters located in proximity of the town of Norcia, caused impo [...]
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Liquid storage tanks are vital lifeline structures and have been widely used in industries and nuclear power plants. In performance-based earthquake engineering, the asse [...]
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This paper deals with the problem of the seismic protection of high voltage electrical equipment by using steel cable dampers (wire-ropes). The wire-rope isolators, often [...]
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The paper deals with the results of shaking table tests upon a steel liquid storage tank with a diameter of 4 m, filled with water up to one meter. This thank is a 1:14 s [...]
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This paper deals with experimental activity on piers belonging to an old viaduct of the Italian highway network. The tests consist of cyclically imposed displacement to a [...]
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