Recent earthquakes, all over the world have demonstrated that a large portion of existing reinforced concrete buildings exhibits high seismic vulnerability. The evaluatio [...]

Due to the scale and number of buildings involved, the methodologies currently available to assess the seismic vulnerability of urban areas usually require the treatment [...]

The evaluation of the seismic risk of built-up areas is associated to the level of earthquake hazard, building vulnerability and level of exposure. Within this holistic a [...]

This paper discusses a mechanical model for the vulnerability assessment of masonry buildings that takes into account the uncertainties inherent to the structural paramet [...]