Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2021) | Viewed by 33724
Special Issue Editors
Interests: seismic vulnerability assessment; masonry buildings; reinforced concrete buildings; protection of cultural heritage; strengthening; structural testing; nonlinear modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to provide a forum for presenting and discussing the latest findings and developments in the area of seismic performance assessment of buildings. It is well known that earthquakes are catastrophic events inducing major human and economic losses. Seismic performance assessment is a formal process for the seismic upgrade of existing buildings which includes a specific intent to achieve defined performance objectives in future earthquakes. It requires basic data on the vulnerability of structural and nonstructural components to damage (fragility), as well as estimates of potential casualties, repair costs, repair times, and environmental impacts (consequences) associated with this damage.
The aim of this Special Issue is to attract world-leading researchers in the area and to help them spread their latest developments, including new methodologies for the seismic performance assessment of buildings, numerical modeling, and the definition of performance objectives and estimates of the consequences both at the building and urban scale.
It is the hope of the Editorial Team that this Special Issue will contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art towards seismic performance assessment and improvement of buildings.
Prof. Dr. Rita Bento
Dr. Ana Simões
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Seismic performance assessment
- Vulnerability analysis
- Fragility analysis
- Loss
- Seismic risk
- Masonry buildings
- RC buildings
- Mixed buildings
- Monumental buildings
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