Earthquake-induced ground failure, in the form of liquefaction or slope instability, manifests itself as permanent ground deformation (PGD), which can cause significant damage to buildings and infrastructure. Current methodologies for the evaluation of ground failure related earthquake losses are considerably less advanced than those for ground shaking. Most existing damage scales do not incorp...

Fire engineering a building, in general, has one central performance objective – life safety – and property protection is rarely explicitly considered. The engineering is typically based on only one possible fire, which may not represent the most onerous scenario (or may be much too onerous to be considered realistic). Taking inspiration from fragility analyses used in seismic engineering, this...

Abstract: To evaluate train-running safety during seismicity on an entire railway line quantitatively, we should use risk analysis method. A lot of studies for seismic risk management were widely performed in various kinds of research fields. However, the study for fragility curve of train-running safety has not been conducted and its basic characteristics have not been obtained. Through this s...

Abstract The Department of Civil Protection (DPC), in compliance with the EU decision 1313/2013 and at request Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 to update disaster risk assessments by various countries, released latest National Assessment Italy end 2018. Specifically, as regards seismic assessment, six research units belonging two centres competence DPC collaborated under i...

Abstract The paper presents a mechanical-based framework for the evaluation of local-scale seismic fragility curves. approach is oriented to vulnerability assessment unreinforced masonry buildings and makes use basic exposure data easily obtained from survey or available in existing database. An efficient finite element model static nonlinear analyses are employed assess structural behaviour. c...