During seismic sequences, repeated shocks of varying intensity hit previously damaged and unrepaired building stock. The cumulative damage from repeated shocks affects th [...]

The current approach of the Italian and European building codes to account for knowledge-based uncertainties in the seismic assessment of masonry buildings consists in se [...]

The assessment of the out-of-plane response of masonry has been largely investigated in literature assuming walls responding as rigid blocks or assemblies of rigid bodies [...]

This paper deals with the computation of the collapse risk of new masonry buildings designed according to the Italian Building Code. Companion papers describe the overall [...]

In the numerical modelling of flexural behaviour of masonry buildings by means of macroelement models, it is important to account for the limited compressive strength and [...]

A method for comparing probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) results with historical macroseismic observations is proposed, with specific application to the South- [...]

Since the number of victims and the amount of economic losses are closely related to the seismic performance of structures, in the last decades significant relevance has [...]

A very complete and homogeneous database of post-earthquake building inspections, carried out after the main Italian events of the last 30 years, has been processed to de [...]

A new analytical procedure for the derivation of fragility curves for masonry buildings, based on nonlinear static and dynamic stochastic analyses of the whole structure, [...]