During recent earthquakes, seaports have demonstrated that they can be highly vulnerable to seismic motion and associated ground failures. Poor seismic performance of seaports has resulted in billions of dollars of losses. Seaports are critical nodes in regional transportation networks and have an important impact on the economy of the area. Thus, the need for risk analysis of port facilities i...

Current studies lack probabilistic evaluations on the performance of fault-crossing bridges. This paper conducts seismic fragility analyses to evaluate cable-stayed bridges with effects fault ruptures. Synthetic across-fault ground motions are generated using existing simulation methods for low-frequency pulses and high-frequency residuals. Incremental dynamic analysis is utilized generate resp...

Masonry structures are complex systems that require a thorough and detailed knowledge and information regarding their behaviour under seismic excitations. Appropriate modelling of a masonry structure is a prerequisite for a reliable earthquake resistant design or assessment. However, modelling a real structure to a robust quantitative (mathematical) representation is a very difficult, complex a...

The influence of the effects degradation materials on seismic fragility Cultural Heritage buildings in Granada (Spain) is investigated. material, which mainly happens at lower levels façades, obtained by using 3D photogrammetry data. Fragility curves for three cultural heritage constructions are calculated FE nonlinear dynamic analyses both non-deteriorated and deteriorated geometries. Finite E...