Disaster risk reduction has become a global urgent need. Similarly to other natural hazards, earthquakes may cause significant damages on a large scale. In Europe, seismic events mainly affect historical city centers, which are characterized by dense urban structure, usually constituted by ancient masonry and pre-code R.C. buildings, often in aggregate sequence. Historical city centers are very...

Several studies have been devoted to calibrate damage indices for steel and reinforced concrete members with the purpose of overcoming some of the shortcomings of the parameters currently used during seismic design. Nevertheless, there is a challenge to study and calibrate the use of such indices for the practical structural evaluation of complex structures. In this paper, an energy-based damag...

The main objective of applying active control forces to base-isolated structures is to protect them in the event of an earthquake. An LMI-based control design is proposed to attenuate seismic disturbances in base-isolated structures under saturation actuators. Using a simplified model of the structure system, a control algorithm design is offered. Performance evaluation of the controller is car...

The global earthquake disaster happened frequently in recent years, how to guide the construction correctly in seismic area becoming a problem to be solved, while the study on the tunnel geological advanced prediction system in seismic area is limited. This paper established an integrated prediction system which was combined with engineering geology analysis and geophysical method combined with...

Seismic hazards remained as a challenge to engineers over ages. In order to reduce loss of life and damage to property due to earthquake, several techniques have been developed among which Seismic Isolation technique using Elastomeric Isolators has gained high acceptance and becoming popular all over the world, due to its simplicity, reliability and overall cost effectiveness. Seismic Isolation...