The devastation inflicted on civil infrastructure by natural disasters has the potential to result
in numerous deaths and huge economic losses. Natural hazards such as hurricanes …

Coastal structures are susceptible to a variety of natural hazards, such as wind, storm surge,
waves, earthquakes, and tsunamis. These hazards must be fully studied and well …

Most areas of the world are subjected to one or more natural hazards, such as earthquakes,
tsunamis, hurricanes (cyclones), snow storms, wildfires, costal inundation or river flooding. In …

Abstract Performance-Based Engineering (PBE) is a general methodology that allows
designers to conceive and assess the performance of complex structural systems subject to …

Large parts of the world are subjected to one or more natural hazards, such as earthquakes,
tsunamis, landslides, tropical storms (hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons), coastal …

The importance of multi-hazard design of structures has emerged in the last decade, as
extensive media coverage of natural disasters have increased public awareness of the …

It is now generally accepted that several types of risks can be recognized for built facilities
and environments: they are not limited to collapse and heavy damage but involve comfort …

Focusing on natural hazards as wind and earthquake, the goal of this work is to understand
if interference occurs in the design choices for steel buildings of a certain height, thus …

Climate change, population dynamics, the aging of built infrastructure, and their growing
complexity have gradually increased the vulnerability of coastal communities around the …

Wood-frame residential construction represents a major investment in the United States,
which, when exposed to hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural hazards, may sustain …