In light of growing concerns over sustainability, particularly in the wake of environmental disasters like the Aznalcollar ...

This manuscript discusses some preliminary results on the structural and the seismic performance of the Mosque-Cathedral ...

Existing heritage buildings can be especially vulnerable to earthquakes. They were designed only considering gravity loads ...

The equivalent frame (EF) idealisation of masonry structures is widely used in engineering structures. Despite its ...

The computational burden needed to perform a fragility analysis of structures can be excessive and beyond the capability ...

Seismic vulnerability and loss analyses of buildings are usually estimated under the fixed-based condition, omitting the ...

This work summarises the strategy adopted in the European research project PERSISTAH. It aims to increase the resilience ...

The European building stock is an aging infrastructure, mainly built prior to building codes. Furthermore, 65% of these ...

The seismicity of the southwestern Iberian Peninsula is moderate but large events with long return periods can occur. This ...

Capacity curves obtained from nonlinear static analyses are widely used to perform seismic assessments of structures as ...

The preservation of the cultural heritage is a current challenge for modern societies. Thus, it is important to analyse ...

Existing reinforced concrete (RC) structures might not comply with current seismic codes due to their aseismic design and ...

Spanish primary school buildings are likely to present a high seismic vulnerability. This is due to two main factors: (a) ...

Soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects are usually omitted in the seismic vulnerability analyses of buildings. However, ...

The seismicity of the southwestern Iberian Peninsula is moderate but large events with long return periods occur (≈ ...

Among existing natural disasters, earthquakes have historically caused the most outstanding damage and human losses. The ...

Existing RC framed buildings lack significant ductility, especially when they have been built with pre-code criteria. ...

The present book aims to present the work developed in the European research project PERSISTAH (Projetos de Escolas ...

Most seismic vulnerability analyses do not consider the Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI). However, it has been proved that ...

This paper aims to analyse the ductility of existing buildings to evaluate its influence in their 14 seismic performance. ...

Previous research has indicated that many European buildings are vulnerable to moderate-magnitude earthquakes. For example, ...

Foi concebido para apoiar a formação de professores, monitores e técnicos da área educativa do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico ...

Este Guia pretende ser um recurso para aumentar a resiliência da comunidade educativa, mostrando que é possível viver com ...

The Iberian Peninsula is close to the Eurasia-Africa plate boundary resulting in a considerable seismic hazard. In fact, ...

El presente libro tiene como objetivo la presentación del trabajo desarrollado en el proyecto europeo de investigación ...

A high percentage of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in Portugal were designed and built before the introduction of ...

Está guía está concebida para apoyar la formación del personal educativo de enseñanza primaria, que quiera mejorar su ...

Esta guía pretende ser un recurso, que no un manual, para aumentar la resiliencia de la comunidad educativa, mostrándole ...

This guide is intended to be a resource, and not a manual, for increasing the resilience of an educational community, by ...

This manual is designed to sup-port the training of primary school teachers, instructors and technicians, who want to ...

Most earthquake-related losses are enhanced by soil amplification phenomena, especially in areas where high vulnerability ...

En este proyecto se aborda la restauración y rehabilitación de una cantera de áridos. Dicha restauración se realiza mediante ...

The knowledge of the seismic hazard in the Iberian Peninsula (IP) and its neighboring area is important to address the ...

A project named PERSISTAH (Projetos de Escolas Resilientes aos SISmos no Território do Algarve e de Huelva, in Portuguese) ...

A project named PERSISTAH (Projetos de Escolas Resilientes aos SISmos no Território do Algarve e de Huelva, in Portuguese) ...

The seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings has been widely analysed. Most of the solutions proposed ...

A project named PERSISTAH is being developed to study the seismic vulnerability of primary schools in Huelva (Spain) and ...

Microseismic sensing taking advantage of sensors can remotely monitor seismic activities and evaluate seismic hazard. ...

In this research, the 1531 earthquake is revisited. This was one of the major earthquakes that affected Portugal and, ...

Seismicity partitioning is an important step in geological structure interpretation and seismic hazard assessment. In this ...

The main objective of this research is the study and assessment of the seismic vulnerability of primary schools in the ...

The occurrence of earthquakes has been studied from many aspects. Apparently, earthquakes occur without warning and can ...

Una solución barata para la protección de taludes es la utilización de mallas de alambre. Este trabajo muestra el diseño ...

A previous definition of seismogenic zones is required to do a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for areas of spread ...

This work explores the use of different seismicity indicators as inputs for artificial neural networks. The combination ...

Nowadays, much effort is being devoted to develop techniques that forecast natural disasters in order to take ...

La Alhambra de Granada es uno de los monumentos nacionales más importantes. El monumento, Patrimonio de la Humanidad, se ...

Earthquakes arrive without previous warning and can destroy a whole city in a few seconds, causing numerous deaths ...