Combining an Intensive Green Roof with Seismic Retrofitting of Typical Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Israel. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2022 Pushkar S, Halperin I, Ribakov Y.
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Structural optimisation problem in support to building retrofitting decision [PDF]
, 2005 Various analysis methods, either linear elastic or non-linear, static or dynamic, are available for the performance analysis of existing buildings. Despite its advantages, it must be admitted that non-linear time history analysis can frequently become ...
Costa, A., Pinto, A., Varum, H.
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SEISMIC RETROFIT OF HIGHWAY BRIDGES
Journal of JAEE, 2004 This paper presents the seismic retrofit practice of existing highway bridges in Japan. At first, the histories of the past seismic design codes, past seismic evaluation, and past seismic retrofit practices for highway bridges are described. Then the damage caused by the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake and the lessons learned from the earthquake are ...
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Seismic vulnerability of churches in Faial and Pico islands, Azores [PDF]
, 2012 Earthquakes represent one of the main cause of serious damage and loss of historic and architectural heritage. Interventions to preserve these building should start with a careful knowledge and assessment of their seismic vulnerability, in order to ...
Costa, A. +6 more
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Shock and Vibration, 2020 In this study, a new technique for seismic retrofitting via the attachment of an “external steel reinforced concrete frame” (ESRCF) system was developed to strengthen medium-to-low-rise reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. Two methods (bolting and welding)
Ju-Seong Jung, Kang-Seok Lee
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Structural vulnerability of Nepalese Pagoda temples [PDF]
, 2012 Nepal is located in one of the most severe earthquake prone areas of the world, lying between collisions of Indian to the Eurasian plate, moving continuously, resulting in frequent devastating earthquakes within this region.
Costa, A. +3 more
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Issues of energy retrofitting of a modern public housing estates. The ‘Giorgio Morandi’ complex at Tor Sapienza, Rome, 1975-1979 [PDF]
, 2016 Energy retrofitting of historical residential buildings represents today an interesting challenge of the building sector. This is true especially in Italy where great part of the national buildingstock dates back to pre-modern and modern times and ...
Mancini, Francesco +2 more
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Considerations related to housing and seismic risk [PDF]
Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2016 The paper aims to present the main problems related to the seismic risk and housing in urban settlements in Romania, with special focus on Bucharest, which is the most exposed city.
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Estimation of losses for adobe buildings in Pakistan [PDF]
, 2012 Adobe buildings are vulnerable to seismic forces. Large scale destructions and casualties have been caused due to the collapse of adobe buildings during the past earthquakes. A significant number of adobe structures exist in different parts of Pakistan,
Alam, N. +3 more
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Optimal seismic upgrading of a reinforced concrete school building with metal-based devices using an efficient multi-criteria decision-making method [PDF]
, 2017 In the paper, the seismic retrofitting of an existing reinforced concrete school building located in the district of Naples has been examined. The school, which was designed to sustain gravity load only, is composed of seven constructions separated with ...
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