TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silva, Rui
AU  - Ferreira, Tiago Miguel
AU  - Mendes, Nuno
AB  - Devastating seismic events occurring all over the world keep raising the awareness of the scientific, technical and political communities to the need of identifying assets at risk and developing more effective and cost-efficient seismic risk mitigation strategies. Significant advances in earthquake engineering research have been achieved with the rise of new technologies and techniques with potential use in risk assessment, management and mitigation. Nevertheless, there is still much to be done, particularly with regard to existing buildings, most of them built without anti-seismic provisions. The wide variety of construction and structural systems, associated with the complex behaviour of their materials, greatly limit the application of current codes and building standards to the existing building stock. To tackle this issue, there is a fundamental need for developing multidisciplinary research that can lead to the development of more sophisticated and reliable methods of analysis, as well as to improved seismic retrofitting techniques compliant with buildings conservation principles. This book intends to contribute to the aforementioned goal by stimulating the exchange of ideas and knowledge on the assessment and reduction of the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings. 10 high quality contributions authored by international experts from Italy, Portugal, Morocco, Nepal, Czech Republic and Spain are included herein. All contributions pursue the protection of existing buildings by considering the most updated methods and advanced solutions emerging from different fields of expertise.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03921-258-3
ID  - OAPEN ID: 35941
KW  - brittle failure
KW  - earthquakes scenarios
KW  - n/a
KW  - FRP
KW  - joints
KW  - neural networks
KW  - pushover
KW  - seismic performance
KW  - infilled frames
KW  - carpentry halved joint
KW  - inter-storey drift
KW  - safety assessment
KW  - seismic risk
KW  - high-rise RC
KW  - discrete elements
KW  - seismic vulnerability assessment
KW  - limit analysis
KW  - seismic capacity
KW  - Geo-hazard site effects
KW  - automatic protocols
KW  - numerical modelling
KW  - seismic retrofit
KW  - retrofit
KW  - numerical modeling
KW  - Imzouren
KW  - finite element modelling
KW  - Expected damage scenario
KW  - masonry structures
KW  - large-scale vulnerability analysis
KW  - seismic restoration
KW  - vulnerability assessment
KW  - earthquakes
KW  - unreinforced masonry structure
KW  - frame-infill interaction
KW  - CARTIS form
KW  - seismic analysis
KW  - nonlinear static analysis
KW  - Seismic attenuation law
KW  - seismic behavior
KW  - seismic retrofitting
KW  - damage assessment
KW  - capacity curves
KW  - energy dissipation
KW  - mobile-device applications
KW  - in situ structural diagnosis
KW  - vulnerability index
KW  - Vulnerability assessment
KW  - GIS mapping
KW  - Gorkha earthquake
L1  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1465
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57921
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783039212576
SN  - 9783039212583
TI  - Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings: Assessment and Retrofitnull
ER  - 
