A probabilistic performance‐based approach for mitigating the seismic pounding risk between adjacent buildings

M Barbato, E Tubaldi - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Existing design procedures for determining the separation distance between adjacent
buildings subjected to seismic pounding risk are based on approximations of the buildings' …

New analytical solution of the first-passage reliability problem for linear oscillators

S Ghazizadeh, M Barbato, E Tubaldi - Journal of Engineering …, 2012 - ascelibrary.org
The classical first-passage reliability problem for linear elastic single-degree-of-freedom
(SDOF) oscillators subjected to stationary and nonstationary Gaussian excitations is …