Many industrial buildings with a precast concrete structure have been designed in accordance with non-seismic provisions by considering only gravity loads or, in some oth [...]

This paper reports on the results of an ongoing Research Project aimed at computing the risk of collapse of new buildings conforming to the Italian Seismic Design Code. C [...]

Viscous dampers are energy dissipation devices widely employed for the seismic control of new and existing building frames. To date, the performance of systems equipped w [...]

In the last few decades, high damping natural rubber (HDNR) bearings have been extensively employed for seismic isolation of bridges and buildings because of their low ho [...]

Viscoelastic devices have proven to be very efficient devices for new buildings and seismic retrofitting of existing structures. They are usually obtained by using copoly [...]

In this paper a design method for buckling-restrained braced steel frames is examined. The proposed method aims to obtain an uniform yielding of all Buckling Restrained B [...]

High Damping Rubber (HDR), commonly used for seismic isolation devices, may also be used to produce passive dissipation devices. HDR-based devices have a number of advant [...]

The performance of multi-span steel-concrete composite bridges in recent seismic events has shown that these structures are very sensitive to earthquake loading. Extensiv [...]