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 [...]

Recent earthquakes have demonstrated that the seismic behaviour of existing reinforced concrete buildings, not designed to resist to earthquake loadings, is strongly affe [...]

This paper reports on the results of an ongoing Research Project aimed at computing the risk of collapse in code-conforming new Italian buildings. A companion paper descr [...]

As a consequence of the large number of masonry buildings and their important historical value, there is an ongoing effort to investigate their structural behaviour. This [...]

In this paper, the results of a damage reconnaissance activity carried out on eight minor historic centers of Abruzzi after the 6.3 Mw L’Aquila earthquake, occurred on [...]

The present paper reports on an Italian collaborative research study on the applicability of nonlinear methods of analysis to regular and irregular existing RC buildings [...]

The slips of the reinforcing bars and deterioration of the bond interfaces above the foundations and in the beam-column connections and plastic hinge regions play a cruci [...]

Due to recent destructive earthquakes, the lateral behaviors of pile foundations have been extensively investigated through experimental and numerical studies. The main o [...]

The study of historical building goes beyond the modern principles of earthquake engineering and requires on one side a good knowledge of the building techniques at the t [...]