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Tharindu Malinga Abeysiriwardena, Kushan Kalmith Wijesundara and Roberto Nascimbene
The assessment of seismic risk for critical and strategic structures like schools and hospitals remains crucial, even in regions with low seismic activity. Presently, operational school buildings in Sri Lanka are primarily designed to handle gravitationa...
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Mohammadreza Mohammadi, Araliya Mosleh, Mehran S. Razzaghi, Pedro Alves Costa and Rui Calçada
The purpose of this research is to study the seismic performance of railway embankments through a probabilistic approach. Nonlinear response history analyses were conducted utilizing PLAXIS software. Three categories of railway embankments were selected ...
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Julia Kohns, Lothar Stempniewski and Alexander Stark
For seismic risk analysis, reliable predictions and estimations of earthquake damage and seismic behaviour of buildings are essential. A common method is the use of fragility curves. In this paper, fragility functions are developed based on various numer...
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Zhongkai Huang
The present work aims to introduce an integrated framework for the resilience evaluation of shallow circular tunnels subjected to earthquakes using fragility and restoration functions. A typical shallow circular tunnel in Shanghai city of China is examin...
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Chenglong Gong, Yixin Su and Danhong Zhang
In this paper, a variable gain prescribed performance control law is proposed for dynamic positioning (DP) of ships with positioning error constraints, input saturation and unknown external disturbances. The error performance index functions are designed...
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Francesco Cavalieri, Giuseppe Donelli, Rui Pinho, Filippo Dacarro, Nunzia Bernardo and Michele de Nigris
Damage to devices installed in electric substations, which have shown vulnerable behaviour under strong earthquakes in the last decades, may endanger power delivery in the emergency phases during and after an earthquake. Within seismic risk assessment of...
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Alexandros Tsipianitis and Yiannis Tsompanakis
Base isolation of liquid storage tanks has proven to be an efficient seismic protection measure, leading to a drastic reduction of a superstructure?s distress. However, many such tanks are located near seismic tectonic faults, which generate strong pulse...
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Samar Momin, Holger Lovon, Vitor Silva, Tiago Miguel Ferreira and Romeu Vicente
Adobe construction represents 5.3% of the total Portuguese building stock according to the latest National Housing Census. The distribution of these adobe buildings is scattered across the country, with higher density in the central region and in Algarve...
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Ilaria Capanna, Angelo Aloisio, Franco Di Fabio and Massimo Fragiacomo
The city of L?Aquila (Italy) includes a significant amount of masonry palaces erected from the middle of the 13th century up to the first half of the 20th century. This paper focuses on the seismic response of a masonry palace built during the first half...
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Luis A. Pinzón, Luis G. Pujades, Irving Medranda and Rodrigo E. Alva
In this work, the directionality effects during the MW 7.8 earthquake, which occurred in Muisne (Ecuador) on 16 April 2016, were analyzed under two perspectives. The first one deals with the influence of these effects on seismic intensity measures (IMs),...
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