The holistic renovation of existing buildings is nowadays acknowledged as an essential and urgent action to reduce the environmental impact and increase the resilience of [...]

A new approach for the sustainable restoration of the European RC buildings built after World-War II (about 50% of the existing building stock) is proposed in this paper. [...]

The response of buildings not specifically designed to resist seismic actions can be generally improved by imposing the dissipation of an appropriate amount of energy. Th [...]

The transition toward a low carbon society is nowadays recognized as a worldwide priority. In the building sector, such a mission is typically associated to the refurbish [...]

Rocking walls represent an emerging solution for lateral force resisting systems in low to medium seismicity sites. The main features of these systems are the self-center [...]

In Italy, precast concrete structures are traditionally designed as moment resisting frames with plastic hinges occurring at the column base and beams hinged to the colum [...]

In this paper we present the application of Direct Displacement Based Design (DDBD) to precast concrete structures with different column to foundation connections, whose [...]