Although damage to structures may be insignificant after an earthquake, the economic impact due to residual displacements (RDs) may be huge. This has recently been highli [...]

In this paper the Baseline Stiffnesses Method, BSM, is proposed to identify damage in buildings without knowing their undamaged state. The method is aimed at determining [...]

The maximum expected monetary benefit or minimum expected cost rule are often adopted in assessing the optimal seismic design levels for structures under infrequent large [...]

A method to locate and evaluate damaged structural and no structural elements in buildings is presented. In order to detect damage the proposed method uses as data the mo [...]