This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings: Assessment and Retrofit that was published in Buil

Devastating seismic events occurring all over the world keep raising the awareness of the scientific, technical and political communities to the need of identif

This present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and elements within the main buildings typologies, and it analyses the p

Provides design professionals & local building officials with a standard methodology to evaluate buildings of different types & occupancies in areas of differen

Advanced Design Examples of Seismic Retrofit of Structures provides insights on the problems associated with the seismic retrofitting of existing structures. Th