Piping systems, a vital part of energy industries, e.g. petrochemical, oil & gas and chemical plants, have been found particularly vulnerable under earthquake loading [...]

Buried steel pipes are commonly used in oil and gas industry for transmitting hydrocarbon products. Fault crossing is considered as one of the most important extreme even [...]

Earthquakes can cause significant damages to industrial liquid storage tanks resulting in losses of functionality, fires or environmental contamination due to the leakage [...]

The vulnerability of the urbanized territory against Na-Tech events has been recently raised because of the general unpreparedness of the countries in predicting effects [...]

The seismic events which hit Central Italy on 24 August, October 26 and October 30 2016 have caused casualties and major damage mostly to buildings and architectural heri [...]

2016 Central Italy earthquakes, whose three major events occurred between 29 August and 30 October with epicenters located in proximity of the town of Norcia, caused impo [...]

Liquid storage tanks are vital lifeline structures and have been widely used in industries and nuclear power plants. In performance-based earthquake engineering, the asse [...]

In petroleum industries, especially in refineries installations, hundreds of miles of pipes are installed to transfer row and refined material (fluid and gas) from a poin [...]

A critical issue in the emergency management after the earthquake is the functionality of the main infrastructure (hospitals, road network, etc.) and the decision on thei [...]

This paper deals with the problem of the seismic protection of high voltage electrical equipment by using steel cable dampers (wire-ropes). The wire-rope isolators, often [...]