Variability of near‐fault seismic risk to reinforced concrete buildings based on high‐resolution physics‐based ground motion simulations

Effects of Vertical Ground Motion on Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Flat-Plate Buildings

Effect of Material Variability and Mechanical Eccentricity on the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Mario Lucio Puppio 1,*, Martina Pellegrino 1,*, Linda Giresini 1 ID and Mauro Sassu 2 ID 1 Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering; University of Pisa, Pisa 56126, Italy; [email protected] 2 Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]...

Seismic Risk Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Using Fuzzy Rule Based Modeling

Seismic resiliency of new buildings has improved over the years due to improved seismic codes and design practices. However, vulnerability of seismically deficient older buildings, designed and built on the basis of older codes of practice, poses a significant threat to life safety and survivability of buildings. It is economically not feasible to retrofit the entire seismically deficient infra...

Probabilistic assessment of the seismic damage in reinforced concrete buildings

The main objective of this article is to assess the expected seismic damage in reinforced concrete buildings from a probabilistic point of view by using Monte Carlo simulation. To do that, the seismic behavior of the building is studied by using random capacity obtained by considering the mechanical properties of the materials as random variables. Starting from the capacity curves, one can obta...

Evaluation of Seismic Vulnerability of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Adjacent to the Deep Excavations

In this study, the effect of deep excavation on the seismic response of RC moment resisting building systems has been studied. Deep excavation can cause significant changes in the stress and strain levels of soil environment and also changes in the propagation of seismic waves. This leads to permanent displacements in the foundation system. In this study, three RC building systems, i.e. 5, 10, ...