The relevant losses determined by recent earthquakes stressed the vulnerability of historical
masonry constructions towards horizontal seismic actions, therefore highlighting the need …

Romania is an eastern European country, with two major seismic zones, Vrancea and
Banat. Timisoara is the most important city located in the Banat seismic area, characterized …

Timisoara is the biggest city located in the Banat seismic area, the second most important
seismic zone of Romania. The specificity of the area is represented by shallow earthquakes …

The recent devastating earthquakes have caused severe physical, social, and financial
damage worldwide and indicate that many existing buildings, especially in developing …

Residential building stock in Iran, with its diverse types, is exposed to different earthquake
events each year that necessities the implementation of disaster risk reduction measures …

Seismic performance evaluation of a large inventory of old structures with no design
document is a time‐consuming and costly task. In this research, a fuzzy‐based method and …

Earthquakes affect the safety of the users hosted in both indoor and outdoor urban built
environments, especially in Historic Built Environments (HBEs). Many full HBE-scale risk …

Mostaganem, in Algeria, has experienced several seismic activities in recent years. It was
classified in a zone of high to medium seismic activity according to the actual Algerian …

The built environment is an outcome of the land development process that expresses the
community's relation to its surroundings. In the context of earthquakes, the built environment …

Abstract The Shrine of Prophet Daniel, located in the south-western part of Iran, represents
one of the great examples of the pure brick cultural heritage buildings. This study …