On the 12th of June 2017 an earthquake of Mw= 6.3 struck SSE of Lesvos Island, causing
one human fatality and severe damage to the built environment. The traditional settlement of …

Observations after strong earthquakes show that out-of-plane failure of unreinforced
masonry elements probably constitutes the most serious life-safety hazard for this type of …

Disaster recovery is often unplanned for in the emergency management life cycle. Yet
recovery is the key stage where funds, programs, professional expertise, and volunteer …

The paper analyzes the performance of a hospital system using a holistic and
multidisciplinary approach. Data on impacts to the hospital system were collected using a …

Details of an experimental program investigating the structural performance of unreinforced
masonry (URM) walls strengthened using two different types of polymer textile reinforced …

Investigations of post-seismic events show that the collapse of walls in out-of-plane (OOP)
two-way bending can be one of the most predominant failure mechanisms for unreinforced …

Ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) are crucial for the seismic hazard analysis of
infrastructures. Currently, nearly all GMPEs are designed to predict only mainshock; in …

Abstract Out-of-plane (OOP) mechanisms are one of the major causes of structural collapse
in unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings as observed in recent as well as past seismic …

The seismic protection of small and medium historical towns is an important and current
issue in Italy and in many other earthquake prone regions of Europe, where seismic actions …

Modeling unreinforced masonry walls, subjected to seismic loads applied normal to their
plane, has received much attention in the past. Yet, there is a general lack of conformance …