The inelastic response of existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings without seismic details is investigated, presenting the results from more than 1000 nonlinear analyses. The seismic performance is investigated for two buildings, a typical building form of the 60s and a typical form of the 80s. Both structures are designed according to the old Greek codes. These building forms are typical fo...

Seismic assessment of masonry structures is plagued by both inherent randomness and model uncertainty. The former is referred to as aleatory uncertainty, the latter as epistemic uncertainty because it depends on the knowledge level. Pioneering studies on reinforced concrete buildings have revealed a significant influence of modeling parameters on seismic vulnerability. However, confidence in me...

The experience of the recent earthquakes in Italy caused a shocking impact in terms of loss of human life and damage in buildings. In particular, when it comes to ancient constructions, their cultural and historical value overlaps with the economic and social one. Among the historical structures, churches have been the object of several studies which identified the main characteristics of the s...

background & aim: increasing economic role of medicinal herbs in recent society and complexity of modern technologies in production (planting and harvesting), transportation, storage, processing, quality evaluation, distribution, marketing and consumption of these products require a thorough understanding of their physical properties. coefficient of friction of plant on the various surfaces...

Researchers, emergency response and lifeline managers, and municipal planners are beginning to recognize the utility of seismic landslide hazard zonation. With this recognition, the decisions made based on resulting maps could have widespread social and economic impact in the event of a large earthquake. This report compares several popular permanent displacement models for assessing seismic sl...

The propagation of near-failure, soft-fronted stress waves in 5-foot-long, 1-inchdiameter, unconstrained rods of dry 20-30 Ottawa sand is studied. The input is created by a shock tube, modified to yield soft-fronted, long-duration, airpressure loadings. Primary data are displacement-time histories from seven stations along the rod, read by light-sensing gages designed for negligible inertia and...

In this paper, we present a novel two-step strategy for static output-feedback controller design. In the first step, an optimal state-feedback controller is obtained by means of a linear matrix inequality (LMI) formulation. In the second step, a transformation of the LMI variables is used to derive a suitable LMI formulation for the static output-feedback controller. This design strategy can be...

An angle-dependent reflection coefficient is recovered by seismic migration in the angle domain. We have developed a postmigration technique for computing scattering and dip angle common-image gathers (CIGs) from seismic images, extended by the subsurface offset, based on wave-equation migration methods. Our methodology suggests a system of Radon transform operators by introducing local transfo...

An angle-dependent reflection coefficient is recovered by seismic migration in the angle-domain. We propose a post-migration technique for computing scattering and dip angle common-image gathers (CIGs) from seismic images, extended by the subsurface offset, in relation with wave-equation migration methods. Our methodology suggests a system of Radon transform operators by introducing local trans...

Seismic analysis of data from the Blake Outer Ridge indicates the presence of hydratebearing sediments overlaying gas-saturated sediments in this region. In an attempt to determine possible lateral and vertical variations of the hydrate and gas sediments, I performed a 2-D velocity analysis along two approximately perpendicular seismic lines. Subsequent determination of the seafloor and BSR ref...