Conventional RVS methods for seismic risk assessment for estimating the current situation of existing buildings: A state-of-the-art review

N Bektaş, O Kegyes-Brassai - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Developments in the field of earthquake engineering over the past few decades have
contributed to the development of new methods for evaluating the risk levels in buildings …

Overview on the nonlinear static procedures and performance-based approach on modern unreinforced masonry buildings with structural irregularity

A Aşıkoğlu, G Vasconcelos, PB Lourenço - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Performance-based design plays a significant role in the structural and earthquake
engineering community to ensure both safety and economic feasibility. Its application to …

Pushover analysis of unreinforced irregular masonry buildings: Lessons from different modeling approaches

A Aşıkoğlu, G Vasconcelos, PB Lourenço, B Pantò - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The present paper addresses the seismic performance of a half-scale two-story unreinforced
masonry (URM) building with structural irregularity in plan and in elevation. The main …

Reduction of earthquake risk of the National Palace of Sintra in Portugal: The palatine chapel

M Ponte, R Bento, AA Costa, B Quelhas… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Protecting Cultural Heritage (CH) sites is an important and demanding task. One of
the threats with the most disastrous consequences to the CH is the seismic action, as …

Seismic behavior of lisbon mixed masonry-rc buildings with historical value: a contribution for the practical assessment

J Milosevic, R Bento, S Cattari - Frontiers in Built Environment, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The fact that linear analysis is still the most used procedure in the design engineering
offices, studies which addresses issues associated to the estimation of the structural …

Experimental analysis of unreinforced masonry buildings through the quasi-static test: A half-scale two-story modern masonry building

A Aşıkoğlu, A Barontini, N Savalle… - North American …, 2023 - hal.science
Masonry is one of the most used construction materials for structural and non-structural
elements. The number of masonry constructions is still remarkable in countries where the …

[PDF][PDF] NONLINEAR STATIC ANALYSIS OF AN ASYMMETRIC UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDING USING MACRO-ELEMENT MODELLING APPROACH

Past seismic events showed that irregular structures are subjected to more damage
compared to the regular ones. Although seismic codes prohibit or discourage irregularities …

Nonlinear static analysis of an asymmetric unreinforced masonry building using macro-element modelling approach

A Asikoglu, G Vasconcelos, PB Lourenço, B Pantò… - 2019 - repositorium.uminho.pt
Past seismic events showed that irregular structures are subjected to more damage
compared to the regular ones. Although seismic codes prohibit or discourage irregularities …