Damage due to earthquake is commonly related to substantial direct and indirect losses, highlighting the need for damage detection and retrofit prioritization based on the results of the seismic risk assessment of the road network. In this context, numerous methodologies have been developed for the seismic vulnerability assessment of bridges for different levels of seismic hazard using fragilit...

In this paper, efforts are made to compare the safety of steel moment resistant frames designed according to different editions of the Iranian code of Practice for seismic resistant design of buildings. Also, failure risk of a low and medium height frame which designed for high and low seismicity regions according to three editions of the code are evaluated. First, the testing cases were design...

Abstract For both spiritual and cultural reasons, churches are an essential part of the historical heritage several countries worldwide, including Europe, Americas Australasia. The extreme damage that occurred during 2016–2017 Central Italy seismic swarm highlighted once again noteworthy vulnerability unreinforced masonry churches, which exhibited collapses caused uncountable losses to Italian ...

Among the buildings with strategic role for civil protection purposes part of them were built before introduction modern seismic codes. Aiming to guarantee their operability in case events, they have be assessed and, hopefully, seismically upgraded. This aspect arises necessity reliable low computational demanding numerical models and probabilistic strategies that can easily adopted assessment ...

Abstract In the framework of seismic risk analyses at large scale, among available methods for vulnerability assessment empirical and expert elicitation based ones still represent one most widely used options. fact, despite some drawbacks, they benefit a direct correlation to actual behaviour buildings are easy handle also on huge stocks buildings. Within this context, paper illustrates macrose...

Fragility curves, commonly derived using analytical methods, are important ingredients of seismic risk analysis structures in the framework performance-based earthquake engineering. Hence, accurate estimation realistic fragility functions is a decisive *: Bayesian updating considering diffuse prior step reliable assessment. This paper proposes procedure applied to curves reinforced concrete (RC...

A seismic fragility curve is a visual representation that illustrates the likelihood of structure surpassing particular damage or performance limit state caused by an earthquake with specific intensity ground motion level. This typically generated using probabilistic hazard analysis and structural reliability methods. It based on statistical models rely past data simulations future scenarios to...