Heavy economic losses and human casualties caused by destructive earthquakes around the world clearly show the need for a systematic approach for large scale damage detection of various types of existing structures. That could provide the proper means for the decision makers for any rehabilitation plans. The aim of this study is to present an innovative method for investigating the seismic vuln...

Most of oil and gas offshore platforms are located in the seismic regains. So, Seismic vulnerability evaluation of the offshore platforms is one of the most important and vital issues in the structural systems. In this study, jacket type offshore platforms are studied by incorporating the pushover analyses and nonlinear time history analyses, in such a way that, first some push over analyses ar...

Macro vulnerability of the small island developing states (SIDS) as well as of least developed countries (LDCs) has been an increasing concern for the international community. This concern has led to the creation of the economic vulnerability index (EVI) in order to assess comparatively the degree of structural economic vulnerability of countries. Structural vulnerability results mainly from na...

Extreme climate events are becoming more frequent and severe due to change. Vulnerability extremes is the result of three components: exposure hazards, sensitivity system, capacity adapt. A large-scale qualitative study rural vulnerability in Argentina, Canada, Colombia demonstrates political-economic root causes each context. Structural difficult identify using quantitative indices deductive m...

Vulnerability analyses of coastal or inland bridges in terms flood actions and structural fluid flow characteristics are carried out. In particular, a numerical model based on two-phase is implemented for the multiphase system, whereas three-dimensional formulation shell/volume finite elements adopted structure. The governing equations can simulate interaction between fluids structures, by usin...

Nowadays, the most common approach to seismic risk mitigation is characterized only by strategies reducing building vulnerability, through structural interventions, and it does not consider the possibility to intervene at urban scale, reducing urban seismic vulnerability. This paper deals with the concept of urban seismic vulnerability, and introduces resilience, as the capacity of a system to ...

The vulnerability of framed structures has been analyzed until recently from two different perspectives: Structural and socio-economical. For the sake of assessing the former, indexes and objective measurements have been proposed in the literature. These indexes include relatively accurate assessments of the strength, ductility, energy absorption, fire, blast response and resilience of the elem...