Abstract: A key component of infrastructure seismic risk assessment is the execution of nonlinear time-history analyses with a suite of selected ground motions scaled to site-specific spectra. When interested in the evaluation of ...

Abstract: A simple procedure to calibrate the safety factor of capacity models is presented. The calibration can be carried out based on any available database of experimental tests, even of limited size. The procedure aims to assess ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the development of shear capacity equations for composite truss beams (CTBs). These equations are obtained from a purposely developed mechanics-based shear model. As opposed to commonly used approaches ...

Abstract: This paper presents a methodology to assess the robustness of moment-resisting RC frame buildings under multiple-column-loss scenarios. In the proposed approach, kinetic and strain energy are employed as objective measures ...