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Specific seismic retrofitting of a compact reinforced concrete building with X-bracings and steel jackets. Application to a primary school in Huelva. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2020
Romero-Sánchez E, Morales-Esteban A, Requena-García-Cruz MV, Zapico-Blanco B, de-Miguel-Rodríguez J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Retrofitting aged masonry buildings using advanced cementitious fibre reinforced concrete material: case study and comparison to traditional methods

Sustainable Buildings
China has a large stock of existing aged buildings that can no longer meet the needs of modern life and need to be reinforced to improve their seismic resistance. Complete demolishing and rebuilding waste resources while retrofitting and reusing are more
Chen Lu, Zhao Zemin, Xia Jun, Chen Bing
doaj   +1 more source

Hindsight, Organizational Routines and Media Risk Coverage [PDF]

, 1994
Professor Stallings describes how journalists explain catastrophes by coupling them with flaws in human ...
Stallings, Robert A.
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Special Issue on Advanced Technologies in Seismic Design, Assessment and Retrofitting

Applied Sciences
The seismic design of new structures, as well as the assessment of seismic vulnerability and the retrofitting or rehabilitation of existing structures, are two important research fields in civil engineering [...]
Konstantinos Morfidis, Konstantinos Kostinakis   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The building information modeling for the retrofitting of existing buildings. A case study in the University of Cagliari. [PDF]

, 2018
Italy's very consistent buildings stock has become the major field for real estate investments and for the related projects and actions. The urge of working on built environment is however facing some crucial issues.
Chiara Tagliabue, Lavinia, Desogus, Giuseppe, Martino Di Giuda, Giuseppe, Monni, Giuseppina, Quaquero, Emanuela, Sanna, Antonello, Villa, Valentina   +6 more
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Investigating the problems of historical buildings in relation to earthquakes and researching some of their retrofitting methods

Budownictwo i Architektura
Historical buildings are valuable cultural heritage sites that showcase diverse architectural typologies worldwide. However, these structures are highly susceptible to natural disasters, particularly earthquakes, which present unpredictable risks beyond
Najmeh Hassas, Amir Tabe Bordbar
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Some retrofitting techniques for Albanian bridge [PDF]

, 2013
Based in the world experience about on the seismic design of new bridges and retrofitting of existing ones, now days in Albania it is one of the priority to the implementation of modern codes (Euro codes).
Kostandina, Dhefto
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Seismic Risk Analysis of Revenue Losses, Gross Regional Product and transportation systems. [PDF]

, 2013
Natural threats like earthquakes, hurricanes or tsunamis have shown seri- ous impacts on communities. In the past, major earthquakes in the United States like Loma Prieta 1989, Northridge 1994, or recent events in Italy like L’Aquila 2009 or Emilia 2012 ...
Carturan, Federico
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Seismic Retrofitting of RC Buildings Using a Performance-Based Approach for Risk Resilience and Vulnerability Assessment

Buildings
This paper presents a framework for evaluating the impact of seismic retrofitting alternatives on seismic risk, specifically focusing on economic losses, social losses, environmental losses, resilience, and vulnerability of reinforced concrete (RC ...
Hafiz Asfandyar Ahmed, Waqas Arshad Tanoli   +1 more
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The use of prestressing through time as seismic retrofitting of historical masonry constructions: past, present and future perspective [PDF]

, 2015
Unreinforced masonry is one of the oldest construction materials and main component of historical buildings. Masonry is a heterogeneous material with an anisotropic behavior and may fail quasi-brittle during earthquakes.
Bartoli, Gianni, Budelmann, Harald, Preciado, Adolfo   +2 more
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