The seismic vulnerability of reinforced concrete (r.c.) framed buildings designed with inadequate seismic zone classifications and seismic code provisions is recognized t [...]

Wind design of steel-framed buildings aims to provide appropriate stiffness and strength properties of the structural elements, so as to obtain an elastic behaviour, at t [...]

It is well known that near-fault ground motions are characterized by long-duration horizontal pulses, which can become critical for base-isolated reinforced concrete (r.c [...]

Current seismic codes allow for the use of simple bilinear curves to describe the nonlinear response of the curved surface sliding (CSS) bearings. However, the CSS bearin [...]

A base-isolation system of framed buildings frequently involves elastomeric materials (e.g. High-Damping-Laminated-Rubber Bearings, HDLRBs, and Lead-Rubber Bearings, LRBs [...]

Reinforced concrete (r.c.) framed buildings designed for vertical loads only or in compliance with inadequate seismic classifications and/or code provisions present in ma [...]

An irregular in-elevation distribution of the infill walls in a reinforced concrete (r.c.) framed building can produce significant variations in stiffness, strength and m [...]

The increase in the deformability of a fire-damaged base-isolated building may lead to an amplification in the structural response under the long-duration horizontal puls [...]

The seismic retrofitting of unsymmetric plan reinforced concrete (r.c.) framed buildings can be carried out by the insertion of damped braces (DBs), which are made of ste [...]

Near-fault ground motions are characterized by high values of the ratio PGA between the peak value of the vertical acceleration, PGAV, and the analogous value of the h [...]