This paper attempts to contribute to international discourse on the responsibility of macro structures (economic and political) and private agencies for the production and distribution of vulnerability. It does so by focusing on an individual economic entity, small manufacturing firms (SMFs), in a specific location, western Athens, Greece. By evaluating the losses that SMFs sustained in the ear...

Reliable seismic vulnerability analysis is generally based on time-domain simulations of structural responses. The seismic load is then modelled by a stochastic process, representing seismic ground motion. For this purpose, the analyst can use recorded accelerograms or work with synthetically generated ones. When performing advanced probabilistic analyses, synthetic accelerograms are often used...

In last decades many strategies for seismic vulnerability mitigation of structures have been studied and experimented; in particular energy dissipation by external devices assumes a great importance for the relative simplicity and efficacy. Among all possible approaches the use of fluid viscous dampers are very interesting, because of their velocity-dependent behaviour and relatively low costs....

Abstract This paper presents a seismic vulnerability analysis of historic brick masonry buildings in Vienna, Austria from the period Austro-Hungarian monarchy (1840–1918). The study is based on comprehensive data devastating earthquake damage to Zagreb, Croatia March 22, 2020, which are and comparable Viennese that period, as well numerical structural analyses calibrated situ test series. stati...