To assess the seismic performance of a structural system within an analytical context, we need, among others, to specify a ground motion Intensity Measure (IM). The wary [...]

Since their release in 2012, the FEMA P-58 guidelines for seismic performance assessment of buildings have been regarded as the state-of-the-art paradigm for buildingspec [...]

The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) has commissioned the preparation of analytical vulnerability guidelines for general use. Within this framework, a distinct modeling and [...]

The studies undertaken following the Northridge and Kobe earthquakes in 1994 and 1995, during which many steel buildings were hampered by unsatisfactory connection behavi [...]

So far, the majority of the work carried out on the reliability of steel Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs) has focused on buildings typical of US design and construction pra [...]