People living in a city represent the most important agents of the urban system. In fact, people organize bits of the city, while organizing their own lives, hence direct [...]

Countries around the world have had to face huge economic losses due to natural disasters over the past decade. This, of course represents a source of great concern for N [...]

Earthquakes have always been representing a sleeper risk affecting local and global communities, as they are lowprobability-high-risk events. In addition, being contempor [...]

Seismic events represent nowadays a major challenge for the worldwide scientific community. Besides, novel methodologies for a prompt and efficient response are needed to [...]

Operative seismic aftershock risk forecasting is particularly useful as support for rapid decision-making in the presence of an ongoing aftershock sequence. Arguably, an [...]

Particle methods are among the most studied meshless approaches, with applications ranging from solid mechanics to fluid-dynamics and thermo-dynamics. The objective of em [...]

Extreme loading conditions such as man-made malicious actions, fires or natural events could induce local failure mechanisms (e.g., a loss of a member) which may trigger [...]

Nowadays, events like severe earthquakes or man-made malicious actions are often taken into account in structural design of critical infrastructures and consequently high [...]