Extreme events (ie terrorist attacks, vehicle impacts, explosions, etc.) often cause local
damage to building structures and pose a serious threat when one or more vertical load …

This paper presents a procedure for seismic design of reinforced concrete structures, in
which performance objectives are formulated in terms of maximum accepted mean annual …

Chloride-induced corrosion of steel reinforcement is one of the key factors that influences
the life cycle performance and load-carrying capacities of concrete structures. For concrete …

The increased frequency and magnitude of natural and anthropogenic hazard events that
affected infrastructure systems over the past two decades have highlighted the need for …

In this paper the structural robustness assessment of concrete frame buildings under blast
and under earthquake blast hazard chain scenarios is investigated. A deterministic …

The present research focuses on developing the Fragility Curves (FC) of masonry panels
subjected to various blast scenarios considering extensive parameters such as the effect of …

The seismic vulnerability of reinforced concrete (RC) highway bridges in the vicinity of
landslides is usually evaluated without considering the impact of sliding mass flow-type. The …

Along the service period of aging coastal reinforced concrete (RC) structures, chloride-
induced corrosion (CIC) is a major cause affecting their life-cycle performance and …

This paper proposes a method for the Performance-Based Wind Engineering (PBWE) of
buildings by extending the well-established SAC-FEMA method originally implemented in …

Reliability-based design allows the decision-maker to select the level of reliability for a
specific explosive blast loading scenario. Important to this is an understanding of airblast …