The rapid growth of the urban population and associated environmental concerns are
challenging city planners and developers to consider sustainable and cost-efficient building …

Nel vasto campo dell'ingegneria strutturale la progettazione antisismica è il settore dove il
ricorso a concetti sull'affidabilità rappresenta non solo un perfezionamento, ma una …

A method is presented for the evaluation of the seismic fragility function of realistic structural
systems. The method is based on a preliminary, limited, simulation involving nonlinear …

A site-based fully-nonstationary stochastic model for strong earthquake ground motion is
developed. The model employs filtering of a discretized whit-noise process. Nonstationarity …

It has been shown in recent years that certain non-linear random vibration problems can be
solved by well established methods of time-invariant structural reliability, such as FORM and …

A new approach for computing seismic fragility curves for nonlinear structures for use in
performance‐based earthquake engineering analysis is proposed. The approach makes …

Continuous girder bridge is one of the most widely used bridge types at present, but its
structural characteristics are not conducive to earthquake resistance. Therefore, it is of great …

A unified and comprehensive treatment of shape sensitivity that includes variations in the
nodal coordinates, member cross-section properties, and global shape parameters of …

This paper focuses on a comparison between displacement-based and force-based
elements for static and dynamic response sensitivity analysis of frame type structures …

This paper presents a method to compute consistent response sensitivities of force‐based
finite element models of structural frame systems to both material constitutive and discrete …