Multistorey buildings often have a valuable inventory consisting of objects that their possible
damage during an earthquake will cause unacceptable losses. The paper presents a novel …

The rocking response of freestanding building contents simplified as rigid bodies was
usually investigated in two dimensions with ground motions as the input, while their three …

This paper characterizes the ability of natural ground motions to induce rocking demands on
rigid structures. In particular, focusing on rocking blocks of different size and slenderness …

This paper deals with the need of extending results of deterministic rocking analyses to
stochastic analyses on restrained masonry façades in one-sided motion. The purpose is to …

Rocking podium structures (RPSs) refer to a wide class of structural systems in which the
base storey consisting of freestanding columns that can uplift during seismic excitations …

In the present study the seismic response of elastic single degree of freedom oscillators
placed on the top of a rocking storey is examined. A storey comprised of columns that may …

Structural analyses indicate that monumental articulated ancient Greek and Roman (MAGR)
columns and temples have a very particular seismic response, differing from rigid structures …

A novel methodology for the fragility and risk assessment of ancient freestanding monolithic
columns and colonnades is presented. The proposed approach is based on a modeling that …

In this study two novel spectral ground motion intensity measures (IMs) are presented. The
proposed IMs are calculated throughout the rocking rotational and the angular velocity …

Motivated by the demand of seismic protection of museum collections and development of
performance-based seismic design guidelines, this paper investigates the seismic fragility of …