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Optimal retrofit quantity of exterior steel brace methods on minimizing seismic loss for non-ductile reinforced concrete school buildings in Korea
The brittle shear failure and seismic vulnerability of existing reinforced concrete (RC) school buildings observed during major earthquakes in Korea...
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Pin-supported walls as seismic retrofit for existing RC frames: performance improvement through link removal
Pin-supported (PS) walls represent a possible solution for the seismic retrofit of existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings, enabling...
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Pin-supported walls as seismic retrofit for existing RC frames: feasibility and preliminary design
The seismic retrofit of the existing building heritage represents an urgent issue to be faced and innovative solutions which allow to overcome...
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Bi–axially loaded RC beam–column joints and haunch retrofit
In this study, seismic bi–axially loaded RC beam–column joints are investigated. An experimental campaign on shear–critical corner joints is...
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Seismic risk assessment of Tehran masonry school buildings and prioritizing them for seismic retrofitting using reliability methods
This paper aims to evaluate the seismic risk of the masonry school buildings located in the Tehran metropolis over the next 50 years and to...
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Tension-only ideal dissipative bracing for the seismic retrofit of precast industrial buildings
New precast frame industrial structures are seismically designed according to reliable modern criteria. However, most of the existing built stock...
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Seismic performance evaluation of RC frames strengthened with eccentric steel braces and column jackets
Existing buildings designed on pre-seismic design philosophy as well as modern construction deficient frames may be susceptible to the effects of...
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Seismic retrofit solutions using base isolation for existing RC buildings: economic feasibilty and pay-back time
The existing reinforced concrete buildings typical of the Mediterranean area commonly have poor seismic performance and high vulnerability to the...
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Methodology to incorporate seismic damage and debris to evaluate strategies to reduce life safety risk for multi-hazard earthquake and tsunami
This paper presents a methodology to evaluate life safety risk of coastal communities vulnerable to seismic and tsunami hazards. The work explicitly...
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Seismic fragility assessment of bridges with as-built and retrofitted splice-deficient columns
A significant proportion of existing bridges in high seismic regions were constructed prior to the 1970s. As a result of poor reinforcement...
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A performance-based rehabilitation strategy for RC frame buildings in moderate seismic regions
Large parts of Asia, Europe, and the eastern USA have high population concentrations in moderate seismic regions (MSR), where very large earthquakes...
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Seismic fatality risk evaluation framework for existing buildings in Switzerland
The Swiss code SIA 269/8 for the seismic evaluation of existing structures is risk-based. It relies on the compliance factor α eff , defined as the...
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Multimodal seismic assessment of infrastructures retrofitted with exoskeletons: insights from the Foggia Airport case study
Addressing the seismic vulnerability of infrastructures is critical, especially for those built before the introduction of the current seismic...
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Unconventional Retrofit Design of Bridge Pile Groups: Benefits and Limitations
This paper investigates an example problem of bridge retrofit due to widening, focusing on the foundation. Conventional foundation retrofit is...
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Seismic behaviour of reinforced-masonry aggregate under different types of interaction between adjacent dwellings
Assessing the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings is an essential task for the management of earthquake disasters. For this purpose, the...
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Energy based seismic vulnerability assessment tool for reinforced concrete bridges
Quantification of damage in RC bridges is a key requirement for seismic vulnerability assessment. The main aim of this study is to quantify the...
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Proposing new design and retrofitting objectives for seismic design of hospital structures: a case study of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Eslamabad-e Gharb
This paper compares two methods for retrofitting an existing hospital concrete structure to improve its seismic performance: internal and external...
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Residential building stock in Serbia: classification and vulnerability for seismic risk studies
Regional seismic risk assessment is necessary for designing effective seismic risk mitigation measures. In general, such risk assessment studies...
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An improved cable-cylinder bracing system with quarter-ring yielding devices for seismic retrofit of steel moment frames
This study proposes an innovative hybrid lateral load-resisting system, termed the ring-cable-cylinder bracing system, aimed at improving the energy...
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Seismic fragility reduction of an unreinforced masonry school building through retrofit using ferrocement overlay
The Himalayan region is one of the major seismic areas in the world. However, similar to many other seismically active locations, there are...