Empirical fragility curves for Italian residential RC buildings

A Rosti, C Del Gaudio, M Rota, P Ricci… - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, empirical fragility curves for reinforced concrete buildings are derived, based
on post-earthquake damage data collected in the aftermath of earthquakes occurred in Italy …

Seismic fragility assessment of highway bridges: a state-of-the-art review

AHM Muntasir Billah… - Structure and infrastructure …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Safety and serviceability of highway bridges, during and after an earthquake, is a
prerequisite to ensure continuous transport facilities, emergency and evacuation routes …

Development of a fragility and vulnerability model for global seismic risk analyses

L Martins, V Silva - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Seismic fragility and vulnerability assessment is an essential step in the evaluation of
probabilistic seismic risk. Ideally, models developed and calibrated for the building portfolio …

[HTML][HTML] Energy performance of existing residential buildings in Europe: A novel approach combining energy with seismic retrofitting

DA Pohoryles, C Maduta, DA Bournas, LA Kouris - Energy and buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
The current European building stock is ageing and requires significant renovation efforts to
improve its energy performance and ensure structsural safety. As part of the key actions of …

The impact of climate change on incomes and convergence in Africa

F Baarsch, JR Granadillos, W Hare, M Knaus… - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is projected to detrimentally affect African countries' economic development,
while income inequalities across economies is among the highest on the planet. However, it …

[PDF][PDF] Development of seismic vulnerability assessment methodologies over the past 30 years

GM Calvi, R Pinho, G Magenes, JJ Bommer… - ISET journal of …, 2006 - academia.edu
Models capable of estimating losses in future earthquakes are of fundamental importance
for emergency planners and for the insurance and reinsurance industries. One of the main …

Current challenges and future trends in analytical fragility and vulnerability modeling

V Silva, S Akkar, J Baker, P Bazzurro… - Earthquake …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The lack of empirical data regarding earthquake damage or losses has propelled the
development of dozens of analytical methodologies for the derivation of fragility and …

Empirical fragility curves for Italian URM buildings

A Rosti, M Rota, A Penna - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2021 - Springer
This paper illustrates the derivation of an empirical fragility model for residential
unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, calibrated on Italian post-earthquake damage data …

Uniform design–based Gaussian process regression for data-driven rapid fragility assessment of bridges

Y Pang, X Zhou, W He, J Zhong… - Journal of Structural …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
This paper proposes a uniform design (UD)-based Gaussian process regression (GPR)
method for rapid damage assessment and fragility estimates of bridges. The core idea of the …

SYNER-G: typology definition and fragility functions for physical elements at seismic risk

K Pitilakis, H Crowley, AM Kaynia - Geotechnical, Geological and …, 2014 - Springer
Modern societies and economies become more complex and at the same time more
sophisticated. Still, the experience from earthquakes reveals that even the developed …