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Rodrigo Scoczynski Ribeiro, Marc Arnela, Manuel Teixeira Braz-César, Rúbia Mara Bosse, Laura Silvestro, Gustavo de Miranda Saleme Gidrão, Mariane Kempka, Dyorgge Alves Silva and Marcela Maier Farias Czap
In Brazil, there is a shortage of approximately 5.80 million residences, a challenge that intensified during the pandemic. Since 2013, there has been a mandate to implement specific performance criteria in residential constructions. However, many constru...
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Antonio Cánovas-Saura, Andrés Cabrera-Lozoya and Javier Padilla
The possibilities of obtaining efficient building thermal control by means of colored envelopes while maintaining broad aesthetic options have been evaluated. The use of colored bilayers, where the inner layer presents strong solar absorbent or reflectan...
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Thanapon Tipsunavee, Goran Arangjelovski and Pornkasem Jongpradist
Nowadays, seismic codes are regularly updated with new knowledge and a better understanding of the earthquake phenomenon. With these updates, existing buildings require a reevaluation of their stability and a process of reinforcement and/or retrofitting....
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Carlos Zepeda-Gil and Augusto Jacobo Montiel-Castro
Despite being perceived as a warm country, winters in the Central Mexican Plateau frequently reach temperatures below zero Celsius. Prolonged exposures to low temperatures resulting in heart and respiratory morbidities are estimated to be responsible for...
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Junke Xu, Jiwei Zhu and Jiancang Xie
The risk transmission mechanisms of urban river ecological management engineering projects are examined in this study. Using the Susceptible Exposed Infectious Recovered Susceptible (SEIRS) model for risk transmission, a model of risk propagation delay f...
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Paola Lorusso, Melissa De Iuliis, Sebastiano Marasco, Marco Domaneschi, Gian Paolo Cimellaro and Valentina Villa
In the last few years, modern technologies such as numerical simulations, virtual and augmented reality, and agent-based models represented effective tools to study phenomena, which may not be experimentally reproduced due to costs, inherent hazards, or ...
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Ilaria Capanna, Riccardo Cirella, Angelo Aloisio, Franco Di Fabio and Massimo Fragiacomo
This paper focuses on the dynamic behaviour of a low-rise masonry building representing the Italian residential heritage through experimental and numerical analyses. The authors discuss an application of combined Operational Modal Analysis and Finite Ele...
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Valeria Leggieri, Annamaria di Lernia, Gaetano Elia, Domenico Raffaele and Giuseppina Uva
The paper describes the numerical approach adopted to investigate the effects of vibrations induced on reinforced concrete (R.C.) buildings by the excavation works needed to bury an existing railway line crossing an urban area in the south of Italy. The ...
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Francesco Asdrubali, Daniela Venanzi, Luca Evangelisti, Claudia Guattari, Gianluca Grazieschi, Paolo Matteucci and Marta Roncone
The majority of Italian schools (70%) were built in the absence of any legislation related to energy efficiency, and therefore have very low energy performance due to aging or poor quality of construction. An energy retrofit of this building stock is nee...
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Gokhan Serhat and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Computational analysis of free and forced vibration responses provides crucial information on the dynamic characteristics of deformable bodies. Although such numerical techniques are prevalently used in many disciplines, they have been underutilized in t...
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