The objective of synthetic procedures for assessing the seismic vulnerability of structures is to sort out by inspection and limited elaboration the characteristics and c [...]

A variety of computational procedures has been developed, over the years, for the evaluation of the seismic capacity of the architectural heritage. Due to the peculiariti [...]

Traditional timber construction was based on using plain timber elements and carpentry joints that work by contact pressure and friction, often these joints had only mino [...]

In the last decades, methods for assessing the seismic vulnerability of different types of structures and infrastructure have been developed. No criteria have been so far [...]