When carrying out loss assessment of a road network within a certain region, the characterization of the vulnerability of the existing population of bridges is one of the [...]

The seismic assessment of structures depends on a large number of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, which are majorly associated to the estimation of the structural d [...]

Reinforced concrete (RC) frames subjected to seismic loading often depict localized member-end deformations due to strain penetration effects between adjacent members, su [...]

Distributed inelasticity force-based elements, widely used in earthquake engineering modeling, lose objectivity at local and global level of response in the softening ran [...]

Many existing RC structures worldwide were designed for gravity loads only, with inadequate lateral load resistance, lateral stiffness and poor detailing of the reinforce [...]

The definition of appropriate modelling approaches combined with a consistent software framework is a topic of major importance in the present days for structural enginee [...]

A number of recent studies raised doubts on the effectiveness of conventional pushover methods, whereby a constant incremental force vector is applied to the structure, i [...]

The employment of Nonlinear Static Procedures (NSP) in the seismic assessment of existing structures (or design verification of new ones) has gained considerable populari [...]

The recent drive for the use of a single-degree-of-freedom representation in displacement-based design and assessment of 3D reinforced concrete (RC) structures has signif [...]

An earthquake damage scenario for the city of Messina, Italy, has been carried out with the aim of forecasting the distribution of different levels of structural damage w [...]