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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Slender Masonry Structures [PDF]
, 2015 Existing slender masonry structures, such as Pagoda temples, towers, minarets and chimneys, exist all over the world and constitute a relevant part of the architectural and cultural heritage of humanity. Their protection against earthquakes is a topic of great concern among the earthquake engineering research community.
Manjip Shakya +3 more
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Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract Textile reinforced mortar (TRM) systems have emerged as an effective alternative to conventional FRP strengthening solutions due to their compatibility with concrete substrates and favorable performance under adverse environmental conditions.
Ömer Mercimek +4 more
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Seismic vulnerability assessment of existing masonry buildings: case study of the old city centre of Faro, Portugal [PDF]
, 2014 The seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of old city centre areas is truly essential in urban rehabilitation programs and should not be focused exclusively over recognized historical and patrimonial valuable buildings but also in relation to current
Costa, Alexandre A. +7 more
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An efficient methodology to estimate probabilistic seismic damage curves [PDF]
, 2019 The incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) is a powerful methodology that can be easily extended for calculating probabilistic seismic damage curves. These curves are metadata to assess the seismic risk of structures.
Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro +3 more
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Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Grounds are the fulcrum of equality law. Thus, discrimination is discrimination when it is based on or because of certain kinds of personal characteristics or grounds such as race or sex. But there is no definition of grounds in general or a definition of grounds such as race or sex in particular in equality law. This article shows that in defining the
Shreya Atrey
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A Novel Approach for Evaluating Seismic Performance of Frame-Type Underground Structures
BuildingsThis paper examines the seismic performance evaluation methodology for underground structures. Through analysis of seismic damage and failure characteristics of underground structures, this study proposes a novel evaluation approach for frame-type ...
Zhong-Yang Yu +5 more
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Hurricane‐induced risk contagion in commercial real estate: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how hurricane‐induced destruction affects the prices of nearby undamaged commercial real estate properties, using Hurricane Sandy as a natural experiment. Using Real Capital Analytics transaction records spatially merged with Federal Emergency Management Agency building‐level damage data, we empirically employ a difference ...
Lu Fang +3 more
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Designing Web-enabled services to provide damage estimation maps caused by natural hazards [PDF]
, 2010 The availability of building stock inventory data and demographic information is an important requirement for risk assessment studies when attempting to predict and estimate losses due to natural hazards such as earthquakes, storms, floods or tsunamis ...
Bernabe Poveda, Miguel Angel +5 more
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates whether prior exposure to natural disasters influenced individual compliance with non‐pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), specifically lockdown measures, during the Corona Virus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Focusing on the Marche region of Italy, which experienced a severe earthquake in 2016, we exploit
Vincenzo Alfano +2 more
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Geodesy and Cartography, 2016 One of the most important steps in earthquake disaster management is the prediction of probable damages which is called earthquake vulnerability assessment.
Fatemeh Khamespanah +3 more
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