The direct modeling of masonry infill walls on many buildings, based damage recorded by various past earthquakes, has become increasingly necessary in order to identify the seismic behavior these elements, which constitute an important part reinforced concrete buildings. In this paper, several 3D models were analyzed nonlinear static (pushover) method, when ignoring, and considering, walls. fin...

Abstract The paper investigates both local and global capacity criteria for collapse assessment of RC frame buildings. Both literature regulations are considered, also including the formulation recommended in draft new Eurocode 8 (part 3) other never investigated. case studies consist low-rise bare infilled buildings, which designed according to Italian code provisions considering low-to-high s...

this paper is a continuation of [uniformities and covering properties for partial frames (i)], in which we make use of the notion of a partial frame, which is a meet-semilattice in which certain designated subsets are required to have joins, and finite meets distribute over these. after presenting there our axiomatization of partial frames, which we call $sels$-frames, we added structure, in th...

The solar wind plasma from the Sun interacts with the Moon, generating a wake structure behind it, since the Moon is to a good approximation an insulator, has no intrinsic magnetic field and a very thin atmosphere. The lunar wake in simplified geometry has been simulated via a 1 1 2 D electromagnetic particle-in-cell code, with high resolution in order to resolve the full phase space dynamics o...

In the present paper, Fragility Curves (FCs) of Reinforced Concrete (RC) building types with moment-resisting frame structure representative existing Italian stock have been derived through an analytical approach. The proposed methodology is based on Non-Linear Dynamic Analyses encompassing all steps required to bring about reliable as well realistic fragility results. First, prototype selected...

This paper deals with modelling strategies for the updating of Finite Element Models (FEMs) infilled Reinforced Concrete (RC) frame buildings. As is known, this building typology most adopted worldwide residential houses and strategic buildings, such as hospitals, schools, police stations, etc. The importance achieving trustworthy numerical models these kinds structures, especially latter ones,...

partial frames provide a rich context in which to do pointfree structured and unstructured topology. a small collection of axioms of an elementary nature allows one to do much traditional pointfree topology, both on the level of frames or locales, and that of uniform or metric frames. these axioms are sufficiently general to include as examples bounded distributive lattices, $sigma$-frames, $ka...