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Large-capacity atmospheric tanks are widely used to store liquids, such as oil or liquefied natural gas. The seismic risk of such industrial facilities is considerably hi [...]
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This research deals with the assessment of the seismic behavior and capacity of a reinforced concrete building in order to examine the possibility of strengthening. This [...]
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Liquid storage tanks are important components of industrial facilities and liquid fuel lifeline transmission and distribution systems. Failure of such structures (such as [...]
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The stability analysis of relatively thick steel tubes under external pressure is important, e.g. for the design and construction of offshore pipeline members. The buckli [...]
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In this paper a general formulation is proposed for the dynamic analysis of stochastic structures with uncertain material properties. A straightforward generalization of [...]
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The research described in the present paper is part of a large research effort, aimed at developing rigorous tools for the analysis of liquid storage tanks, towards deter [...]
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The concept of the so called Variability Response Function (VRF), recently proposed for statically determinate and indeterminate stochastic systems [1, 2], is extended in [...]
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This work presents a general methodology for the seismic design of structures in the framework of Performance Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE), using probabilistic vul [...]
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