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Philippe Rosset, Adil Takahashi and Luc Chouinard
The metropolitan community of Montreal (MMC) is located in Eastern Canada and included in the western Quebec seismic zone characterized by shallow crustal earthquakes and moderate seismicity. Most of the urbanized areas are settled close to the Saint-Law...
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Francisco Grajales-Saavedra, Alexis Mojica, Carlos Ho, Krysna Samudio, George Mejía, Saddy Li, Larisa Almengor, Roberto Miranda and Melisabel Muñoz
The City of David constitutes one of the most important commercial centers of the Republic of Panama. However, it is located on a coastal plane, close to an area with high seismic activity and has been affected by significant earthquakes (18 July 1934, M...
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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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Marco Vona and Benedetto Manganelli
In recent years, the preservation strategies of cultural heritage have become an element of considerable importance. Unfortunately, research has often been conducted in an excessively mono-sectoral or disaggregated manner. Moreover, there is a significan...
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Yange Li, Tianyu Wang, Zheng Han, Weidong Wang and Jianling Huang
As a new construction mode, the prefabricated building is the main direction of the transformation and upgrading process of the Chinese construction industry. In an earthquake area, prefabricated building damage is often reported; therefore, it is import...
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Alon Urlainis and Igal M. Shohet
Recent earthquake events have highlighted the importance of critical infrastructure (CI) resilience, as a strong correlation was found between economic loss and severity of CI damage. CIs are characterized by a complex structure composed of sub-component...
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Maria Luisa Beconcini, Paolo Formichi, Linda Giresini, Filippo Landi, Benedetta Puccini and Pietro Croce
The assessment of seismic performance of existing masonry structures is a key aspect for the risk mitigation strategies of existing buildings and preservation of historical heritage. The increasing availability of modelling approaches for the assessment ...
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Ali Güney Özcebe, Francesca Bozzoni and Barbara Borzi
This paper aims to investigate the seismic vulnerability of key port infrastructure components by using the outcomes of advanced numerical analysis. For the first time, to the best knowledge of the authors, a pile-supported wharf structure, the soil depo...
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Maria Giovanna Masciotta and Paulo B. Lourenço
The preservation and seismic risk mitigation of built cultural heritage is considered today as a major priority in the international political agenda. Among the great variety of heritage structures spread worldwide, masonry towers belong to one of the mo...
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Marco Vona, Amedeo Flora, Emiliano Carlucci and Enrico Foscolo
The resilience of communities is given by the ideal convolution of the resilience of all their single parts. Strategic buildings require high levels of performance during and after a seismic sequence. Consequently, the seismic retrofitting of old strateg...
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