Seismic fragility for Italian RC buildings based on damage data of the last 50 years

C Del Gaudio, M Di Ludovico, M Polese… - Bulletin of earthquake …, 2020 - Springer
A set of about 25,000 residential reinforced concrete (RC) buildings has been investigated
in this study to define fragility curves. The sample originates from a wide database, reported …

Seismic retrofit of existing school buildings in Italy: Performance evaluation and loss estimation

W Carofilis, D Perrone, GJ O'Reilly, R Monteiro… - Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
The seismic vulnerability and inadequate behaviour of existing school buildings observed
during past earthquakes in Italy have raised awareness of the need to upgrade their …

Stick-IT: A simplified model for rapid estimation of IDR and PFA for existing low-rise symmetric infilled RC building typologies

MG d'Aragona, M Polese, A Prota - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The prediction of seismic performances of buildings in terms of engineering demand
parameters EDP, such as interstorey drift ratios IDR and peak floor accelerations PFA …

Effects of infills in the seismic performance of an RC factory building in Pakistan

NA Khan, G Monti, C Nuti, M Vailati - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Infilled reinforced concrete (IRC) frames are a very common construction typology, not only
in developing countries such as Pakistan but also in southern Europe and Western …

An integrated approach to improve seismic and energetic behaviour of RC framed buildings using timber panels

F Smiroldo, I Paviani, I Giongo, S Zanon, R Albatici… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the present paper, an integrated intervention system applicable to concrete-framed
buildings is presented. The purpose of the intervention is to improve both the seismic and …

The use of Stick‐IT model for the prediction of direct economic losses

M Gaetani d'Aragona, M Polese… - Earthquake …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Stick‐IT model (Stick for Infilled frames Typologies), that is a MDOF system
consisting of a series of lumped masses connected by nonlinear shear link elements, was …

Large scale loss assessment using stick-it model: A comparison with actual cost data

MG d'Aragona, M Polese, M Di Ludovico… - Soil dynamics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The estimation of expected seismic losses at regional scale represents a critical issue for the
assessment of the seismic risk and for the evaluation of the seismic resilience of large …

Stick model for as-built and retrofitted infilled RC frames

MG d'Aragona, M Polese, A Prota - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The Stick model is a MDOF system composed of masses lumped at the story level,
connected in series by nonlinear shear link elements suitably calibrated to simulate the …

Effect of masonry infill constitutive law on the global response of infilled RC buildings

M Gaetani d'Aragona, M Polese, A Prota - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Masonry-infilled reinforced concrete frames represent a very common construction typology
across the Mediterranean countries. The presence of infills substantially modifies the global …

Sustainable selective mitigation interventions towards effective earthquake risk reduction at the community scale

M Polese, M Gaetani d'Aragona, M Di Ludovico… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Risk reduction policies are crucial in regions of high seismic risk, having significant
exposure and building vulnerability. In Italy, the Sismabonus incentive mechanism was …