Large-capacity atmospheric tanks are widely used to store liquids, such as oil or liquefied natural gas. The seismic risk of such industrial facilities is considerably hi [...]

This research deals with the assessment of the seismic behavior and capacity of a reinforced concrete building in order to examine the possibility of strengthening. This [...]

Liquid storage tanks are important components of industrial facilities and liquid fuel lifeline transmission and distribution systems. Failure of such structures (such as [...]

The stability analysis of relatively thick steel tubes under external pressure is important, e.g. for the design and construction of offshore pipeline members. The buckli [...]

In this paper a general formulation is proposed for the dynamic analysis of stochastic structures with uncertain material properties. A straightforward generalization of [...]

The research described in the present paper is part of a large research effort, aimed at developing rigorous tools for the analysis of liquid storage tanks, towards deter [...]

The concept of the so called Variability Response Function (VRF), recently proposed for statically determinate and indeterminate stochastic systems [1, 2], is extended in [...]

This work presents a general methodology for the seismic design of structures in the framework of Performance Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE), using probabilistic vul [...]