Out‐of‐plane reinforcement of masonry walls using joint-embedded steel cables [PDF]
, 2020 The out-of-plane mechanism (rocking) of walls often causes fatalities and collapses of historic buildings during earthquakes. This paper addresses the problem of assessing the seismic resistance of walls subjected to out-of-plane bending, before and ...
Bisciotti, Giordano +2 more
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Restoration of Damaged Masonry Vaulted Ceilings of Buildings
Железобетонные конструкции, 2023 In this article, the authors present the results of a study of unreinforced and reinforced stone vaulted ceilings, which included numerical and physical experiments.
Evgeny V. Khorkov, Ilshat T. Mirsaypov
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Earthquake/Tsunami Damage Assessment for Urban Areas Using Post-Event PolSAR Data
Remote Sensing, 2018 Analyses of single-post-event polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data permit fast and convenient post-disaster damage assessment work. By analyzing valid features, damaged and undamaged buildings can be quickly classified.
Yaqi Ji +3 more
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Scene-level buildings damage recognition based on Cross Conv-Transformer
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023 Different to pixel-based and object-based image recognition, a larger perspective based on the scene can improve the efficiency of assessing large-scale building damage.
Lingfei Shi +3 more
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Capacity gaps in post disaster construction & demolition waste management [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the identification of the existing capacities of post disaster C & D waste management in developing countries, with a special emphasis on Sri Lanka to determine the capacity gaps and related influencing
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Karunasena, Gayani
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A Machine Learning Framework for Assessing Seismic Hazard Safety of Reinforced Concrete Buildings
Applied Sciences, 2020 Although averting a seismic disturbance and its physical, social, and economic disruption is practically impossible, using the advancements in computational science and numerical modeling shall equip humanity to predict its severity, understand the ...
Ehsan Harirchian +5 more
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A review of progressive collapse research and regulations [PDF]
, 2014 History has demonstrated that buildings designed to conventional design codes can lack the robustness necessary to withstand localised damage, partial or even complete collapse. This variable performance has led governmental organisations to seek ways of
Byfield, M.P. +3 more
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A site survey of damaged RC buildings in İzmir after the Aegean sea earthquake on October 30, 2020
Građevinar, 2023 An earthquake with a magnitude of Mw = 6.6 and a depth of approximately 16.5 km occurred on 30 October 2020 off the cost of Samos, a Greek island 35 km southwest of Seferihisar, a town in İzmir.
Halit Cenan Mertol +2 more
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Earthquake Hazard Safety Assessment of Existing Buildings Using Optimized Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network [PDF]
, 2020 The latest earthquakes have proven that several existing buildings, particularly in developing countries, are not secured from damages of earthquake.
Harirchian, Ehsan +2 more
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2018 Zhaohua is a historic town in Sichuan Province, in China. On 12th May 2008, a devastating earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter scale struck Wenchuan, Sichuan province.
Hongtao Liu
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