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 …

Local site characterization and regional tectonic environment are crucial when designing
earthquake-resistant bridges. Insufficient understanding of these factors can lead to …

The seismic vulnerability of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings has been an important issue,
especially in earthquake-prone regions with limited seismic design codes such as South …

The seismic assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) structures is commonly carried out
neglecting potential previous damage induced by other phenomena, for example, those …

Bridges are crucial structures of a roadway system, always exposed to both natural and
anthropic hazards. Several approaches have been investigated in the past two decades to …

Seismic reliability assessment of structural systems is commonly done via the convolution of
seismic hazard and structural fragility to get resulting failure rate, and later compute seismic …

Building resilient infrastructure is at the core of sustainable development, as evidenced by
the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9. In fact, the effective operation of road networks is …

Calibrating parametric fragility curves via empirical damage data is one of the standard
approaches to derive seismic structural vulnerability models. Fragilities based on empirical …

The seismic engineering demand parameters (EDPs) of building clusters exhibit significant
spatial correlations and need full consideration in regional risk and reliability assessments …

The 2016 Italian seismic sequence was characterized by three main shocks that occurred on
August 24 th, on October 26 th and 30 th. The latter, a Mw 6.5 event, is the strongest seismic …