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Evolution of national codes for the design of RC structures in Romania
This study presents an overview of the design of reinforced concrete (RC) structures (moment frames, shear walls and large panels) for Romania and the impact on seismic exposure and vulnerability within the co...
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Open AccessClosed-form expressions for partial safety factors used in the seismic assessment of existing RC buildings
A new set of partial safety factors is proposed for the seismic safety assessment of existing reinforced concrete buildings. These safety factors are derived using a framework that focuses on the determination...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The DALIH Database for Recording Disaster Damage and Loss Data in Cultural Heritage
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) upholds the development and implementation of measures to reduce hazard exposure and vulnerability to disasters. Among other aspects, the SFDRR recogniz...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Challenges in the Preventive Maintenance of Early 20th-Century Reinforced Concrete Architectural Sculptures
“Twentieth-century building materials and construction techniques may often differ from traditional materials and methods of the past. There is a need to research and develop specific repair methods appropriat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Hybrid Approach for the Assessment of Flood Vulnerability of Historic Constructions and Their Contents
Flooding is among the natural hazards that cause the most significant damage to immovable and movable cultural heritage assets worldwide. Simplified flood vulnerability assessment methodologies are practical t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
European Seismic Risk Model – Insights and Emerging Research Topics
A new European Seismic Risk Model (ESRM20) was recently released to the scientific community (http://risk.efehr.org). This model combines the European Seismic Haza...
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Chapter
Smart Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Management in the Built Environment
Smart technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and other cyber-physical systems are often associated to Industry 4.0 given their potential for transforming current manufacturing an...
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Are seismic losses affected by the angle of seismic incidence?
The proposed study examines the propagation of uncertainty associated with the angle of seismic incidence of a group of ground motions, as well as to that of the ground motion group size, to the expected seism...
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Combining the bi-objective approach and conditional coring for a reliable estimation of on-site concrete strength variability
In real practice, to assess concrete strength in structures, engineers usually use non-destructive tests (NDT) (e.g. rebound hammer or ultrasonic pulse velocity) in addition to destructive tests (DT) that are ...
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Model of seismic design lateral force levels for the existing reinforced concrete European building stock
As part of the development of a European Seismic Risk Model 2020 (ESRM20), the spatial and temporal evolution of seismic design across Europe has been studied in order to better classify reinforced concrete bu...
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Chapter
For Those Who Want to Go Further
Further analyses and results are presented and discussed in order to provide additional information and justifications regarding the efficiency of the investigation strategy proposed by the Recommendations and...
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Chapter
In-Situ Strength Assessment of Concrete: Detailed Guidelines
Guidelines describe the general process of in-situ compressive strength assessment. This process is divided into three main steps, data collection (using nondestructive testing and destructive testing), model ...
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Chapter
Identification and Processing of Outliers
When analyzing real data sets, observations different from the majority of the data are sometimes found. These observations are usually called outliers and can be defined as individual data values that are num...
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Chapter
How Investigators Can Answer More Complex Questions About Assess Concrete Strength and Lessons to Draw from a Benchmark
This benchmark aims to assess mean compressive strength at several scales and to identify the location and characteristics of possible weak areas in the structure. It concerns synthetic data simulated on a gro...
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Chapter
Illustration of the Proposed Methodology Based on a Real Case-Study
This chapter aims to apply the recommendations of RILEM TC 249-ISC on a real structure, a four-level reinforced concrete framed structure. The flow chart describing the methodology proposed in the recommendati...
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Chapter
How to Identify the Recommended Number of Cores?
The concrete strength assessment process is influenced by uncertainties at many levels, including random measurement errors, sampling uncertainty and identification of the conversion model parameters. Therefor...
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Chapter
Model Identification and Calibration
This chapter provides additional information about the “identification of conversion model” step and the “strength estimation” step as defined in the flowchart summarizing the RILEM recommendation. The advanta...
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Chapter
Identification of Test Regions and Choice of Conversion Models
The main objective of test region (TR) identification is to define an efficient conversion model. The first part of the chapter aims a difficult question, the identification of test regions (TR) because each s...
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Chapter
Illustration of the Proposed Methodology Based on Synthetic Data
This chapter illustrates first how the recommendations proposed by RILEM TC 249-ISC can be applied in practice. All the steps of the investigation process described in the recommendations are followed and the ...
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The significance of considering multiple angles of seismic incidence for estimating engineering demand parameters
The accurate determination of demand during the seismic analysis of buildings requires that all factors having a significant contribution must be accounted for. The present study examines the effect of the ang...
