To improve urban seismic resilience, a reasonable retrofitting scheme for buildings is required. Urban cities contain large number of buildings, making it challenging to precisely assess the benefits each one. This paper proposes cost–benefit assessment framework that takes into account risk, damage, retrofit costs, economic losses, and analyses city-scale buildings. The proposed adopts readily...

A new technique for the strengthening of existing R/C shear walls based on the application of very thin high performance jackets is presented in this paper. The strengthening jacket is made of high performance concrete and high strength steel mesh. The experimental study on a 1:3 scale R/C wall, proportioned to resist the vertical loads only, and reinforced by means of a 15 mm thick high perfor...