Seismic Performance of New-Designed and Existing RC Buildings
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 25144
Special Issue Editors
Interests: performance-based earthquake engineering; RC buildings; masonry infills; nonlinear modeling; fragility analysis; experimental testing
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Interests: reinforced concrete buildings; masonry infills; nonlinear modeling; fragility analysis; experimental testing; large-scale vulnerability analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings represent a widespread construction solution in urban contexts and, therefore, their seismic performance should be adequate to reduce the social and economic impact generally produced by earthquakes. The design of new RC buildings generally guarantees life safety safeguard, but it should be also addressed to significantly reduce damage due to earthquakes and relevant losses and downtime to improve urban resilience. On the other hands, existing buildings are generally not-conforming to the most updated seismic codes. Nevertheless, they represent most of the RC building stock worldwide and therefore their maintenance, seismic performance assessment and rehabilitation represent one of the greatest challenges to be faced by engineers and researchers nowadays.
This Special Issue aims at collecting the recent advancements in design, modelling and analysis tools for seismic performance assessment of RC new-designed or existing buildings, along with the last outcomes of testing experiences on RC buildings or on buildings’ structural and non-structural components. Welcome topics include:
- Simplified linear modelling and analysis tools,
- Nonlinear modelling and analyses,
- Investigations about behavior factor of RC buildings,
- Seismic performance and effect on structural performance of masonry infill walls,
- Fragility curves derivation,
- Seismic loss assessment,
- Experimental testing of structural or non-structural components in RC buildings.
Original contributions, case studies, or state-of-the-art review works are encouraged for submission.
Dr. Maria Teresa De Risi
Prof. Dr. Gerardo Mario Verderame
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Reinforced Concrete Buildings
- Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
- Numerical modelling
- Linear and nonlinear analyses
- Experimental testing
- Seismic performance assessment
- Conforming or not-conforming buildings
- Structural and non-structural components
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