Economic considerations dictate that building structures be able to resist extreme events, such as a major earthquake or a fire, without collapse but with some structural [...]

It is known that when severe earthquakes occur, major fires often follow in the damaged structures. In the post-earthquake scenario fires cannot be dealt with effectively [...]

The paper discusses an alternative approach to a trabecular bone modelling. The proposed method is based on simple models that are created from finite elements with diffe [...]