Expeditious urbanization and population rise around the globe has fostered the need of
speedy and efficient construction, thus generating immense pressure on the construction …

Purpose This paper aimed to introduce a systematic body of knowledge via a scientometric
review, guiding the sustainable transition from conventional construction to prefabricated …

Recent major earthquakes in the Italian territory have reaffirmed the seismic vulnerability of
precast industrial buildings typical of past Italian building practices, highlighting structural …

Extensive damage to school buildings has been observed during past earthquakes in Italy
and there is a need to better understand their potential vulnerability. As part of a national …

The present paper presents a complete and commented collection of cases of damage and
collapse in reinforced concrete (RC) precast industrial buildings, observed by the authors …

Precast reinforced concrete (rc) structures can provide important advantages over their cast-
in-place counterpart. However, lessons learned by past earthquakes evidence that beam-to …

Field observations following the May 2012 Emilia, Italy, earthquakes have revealed the
seismic vulnerability of storage steel tanks typical of the past Italian design practice …

In this paper, a parametric study is conducted in order to evaluate the seismic demand on
light acceleration‐sensitive nonstructural components caused by frequent earthquakes. The …

This paper deals with the development of an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model aimed
at driving decision-making processes when dealing with seismic retrofitting of industrial …

March–April 2015| PCI Journal 58 longitudinal and transversal reinforcement requirements.
In particular, because the minimum number of stirrups depends on the size of the column …