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Hazard and risk assessment of earthquake-induced landslides-case study

Landslides as secondary seismic effects are causing some patterns of soil failure that are often considered among the most destructive ones. In fact, the impact from triggered landslides has sometimes exceeded damage directly related to strong shaking and ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2018

Seismic retrofit of cultural heritage buildings – when less is more

Katrin Beyer, Francesco Vanin, Michele Godio, Andrea Penna

In 1356, Basel was subjected to an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.6; it is the largest known historical earthquake in central northern Europe. During this earthquake and the fire that followed large parts of Basel were destroyed. Such an event ...

2017

Validation and improvement of Risk-UE LM2 capacity curves for URM buildings with stiff floors and RC shear walls buildings

Pierino Lestuzzi, Angelo Garofano, Stefano Podesta

This paper addresses seismic vulnerability assessment at an urban scale and more specifically the capacity curves involved for building damage prediction. Standard capacity curves are a function of predefined building typology and are proposed in the Risk- ...

2017

Probabilistic mechanics-based loss scenarios for school buildings in Basel (Switzerland)

Pierino Lestuzzi, Clotaire Michel, Pia Hannewald

Developing earthquake scenarios for cities in areas with a moderate seismicity is a challenge due to the limited amount of available data, which is a source of large uncertainties. This concerns both the seismic hazard, for which only recordings for small ...

2017

Approximate Method for Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

bstract A wide range of approximate methods has been historically proposed for performance-based assessment of frame buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake. Most of these methods typically require a detailed analytical model representation of the resp ...

International Association of Earthquake Engineering2017

Seismic vulnerability assessment at urban scale: state of the art and perspectives

Lorenzo Diana

Italian territory is particularly sensitive to seismic actions. The Amatrice earthquake on August 24th 2016 confirmed this aspect. Such an event, nothing but extraordinary, has been able to cause huge and tragic damages. The direct knowledge of building fe ...

2017

Effect of Modeling Assumptions on the Earthquake-Induced Losses and Collapse Risk of Steel-Frame Buildings with Special Concentrically Braced Frames

Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang

This paper quantifies the collapse risk and earthquake-induced economic losses of steel-frame buildings with special concentrically braced frames designed in urban California. A probabilistic building-specific loss estimation methodology that can explicitl ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2017

Seismic Performance Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing School Buildings (CROCS-System) in Switzerland

Martina Paronesso

Existing school buildings in Switzerland that have been designed from the early 1970s typically utilized a modular architectural layout and structural system commonly known as CROCS (Centre de rationalization de d’organisation des constructions scolaires). ...

2017

Earthquake-induced floor accelerations in base isolated structure

David Michael Volpe Ruggiero

In order to meet desired seismic performances, it is increasingly evident that engineers require reliable methods for the estimation of seismic demands on both structural and non-structural elements. To this end, current design codes incorporate simplified ...

2017

Experimental Study on Cyclic Behaviors and Restoring Force Characteristics of Concrete Filled Steel Tube Columns Using Ultra-High Strength Steel

Hiroyuki Inamasu

H-SA700 is a type of new ultra-high-strength structural steel that is more environmentally friendly and more suitable for mass production than conventional high-strength steel. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the practical application of CF ...

International Association of Earthquake Engineering2017

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