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Lorna Dragonetti, Dimitra Papadaki, Margarita-Niki Assimakopoulos, Annarita Ferrante and Marco Iannantuono
The environmental and economic evaluation of energy renovation in buildings plays a crucial role in achieving sustainability goals and the decarbonization of the built environment. This paper presents a case study of a student house in Athens, Greece, to...
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Niki Balkamou and George Papagiannopoulos
Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) buildings. In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a r/c building designed a...
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Francesco Esposito, Mario Argenziano, Diana Faiella and Elena Mele
This paper reports a study on the Intermediate Isolation System (IIS) applied to existing buildings. This kind of application is particularly suitable when a vertical addition is planned for buildings in seismic zones; in such a case, an isolation system...
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Lucas Mazzon, Giada Frappa and Margherita Pauletta
A case study where a tuned mass damper (TMD) was installed at the top of a five-story reinforced concrete (RC) building is presented. The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the TMD in changing the structural behavior of medium-rise ...
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Irene Puncello and Silvia Caprili
The relevant losses determined by recent earthquakes stressed the vulnerability of historical masonry constructions towards horizontal seismic actions, therefore highlighting the need for reliable approaches for the structural assessment and following re...
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Kezhi Liu, Changhai Zhai and Xianghai Meng
Seismic mitigation of transportation systems has become a worldwide challenge, because identifying an optimal retrofit strategy entails significant computational efforts, especially for large-scale networks with numerous candidate strategies and time-con...
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Hideki Hirakawa, Takeyoshi Uematsu, Akira Fukushima, Yusuke Adachi and Koki Kikuta
Since the Japanese Building Standards Act was revised in 2000, the installation of steel timber connectors (STCs) to reinforce timber frame (TF) connections has been mandated for new-build TF houses in Japan. However, for the TF houses built before then,...
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Wilson Wladimir Carofilis Gallo, Nicholas Clemett, Giammaria Gabbianelli, Gerard O?Reilly and Ricardo Monteiro
Modern society requires that structures exhibit greater levels of resilience, especially under earthquakes. The seismic resilience of buildings is thus gaining increased attention as a particular, beyond-code approach. Seismically retrofitted buildings b...
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Antonio Formisano and Ylenia Messineo
In Italy, the interest in the industrial areas dates back to 1970, when industry began to be considered as identity and memory of the population, until 1990, when industrial constructions became cultural and historical goods. This interest was also justi...
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Majd Abou Alhaija and Loretta Batali
The paper is useful for those who are interested in the seismic behavior of micropiles and micropiled structures; furthermore, it is presenting the concept of associating micropiles with seismic dampers and the idea of using micropiles to enhance the sei...
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