Demolition of buildings at the end of their life cycle has become more and more important. These buildings are either no longer attractive in an architectural sense or did not reach sufficient standards. Especially industrial buildings which are no longer used because of technological or business reasons are often demolished by controlled explosives. To avoid damage of neighboring buildings or ...

The existence of torsion, as well as consideration of the Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI), increase the natural periods of the structure resulting from a subsequent decrease in the seismic demand of the system. This paper summarizes the probabilistic assessment for evaluation of collapse fragility curves in concrete moment resisting structure with different mass center eccentricities. A 12-sto...

The increasing availability of very high resolution (VHR) remotely sensed images makes it possible to detect and assess urban building damages in the aftermath of earthquake disasters by using these data. However, the accuracy obtained using spectral features from VHR data alone is comparatively low, since both undamaged and collapsed buildings are spectrally similar. The height information pro...

Abstract Structure collapse, on the other hand, is a very complicated phenomenon involving considerable nonlinearity and variety of mechanical interactions. It should be thoroughly examined through experiments numerical simulations to prevent occurrence from occurring. When initial local failure small portion structure takes place it leads spread that damage neighbor elements in chain reaction ...