In the past decades, the research and development of methodologies have received
considerable attention which quantified earthquake-related damages to structures. Among …

Recent concerns have witnessed that excitation due to a seismic event has caused
catastrophic destruction to mankind and its existing surroundings. Loss of livelihood and …

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 …

Structural seismic safety assessment is a critical task in maintaining the resilience of existing
civil and infrastructures. This task commonly requires accurate predictions of structural …

An adequate seismic protection of steel storage tanks of industrial, chemical and
petrochemical plants is essential since potential consequences of failures, besides the …

Several natural and man-made disasters have highlighted that precast reinforced concrete
(RC) buildings often have insufficient levels of structural robustness, which is the last line of …

This paper deals with the development of an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model aimed
at driving decision-making processes when dealing with seismic retrofitting of industrial …

Prefabricated reinforced concrete (RC) column-to-foundation connections are typically
located at the critical region of the columns and are subjected to a combination of large …

The paper analyses the seismic fragility of precast reinforced concrete buildings using
observational damage data gathered after the 2012 Emilia earthquakes that struck Northern …

Precast construction has received a lot of interest over the last few decades. Among the
advantageous aspects of precast structures are superior quality, faster construction, and …