In order to meet the international goals for a sustainable development, it is mandatory to
implement energy saving solutions on existing buildings and industrial ones should be also …

Fragility functions are fundamental for the assessment of seismic safety of structures or the
loss assessment of a portfolio of assets. The present paper describes a procedure to derive …

The seismic behaviour of precast reinforced concrete industrial structures has been
extensively investigated in recent decades, especially after the damage caused by recent …

Observations from past destructive earthquakes indicate that indirect economic losses can
greatly exceed the direct economic losses. However, the influence of indirect losses is often …

Beam‐to‐column connections are a crucial element in industrial precast reinforced concrete
(PRC) buildings. They are also the source of several damages reported after recent …

Past earthquakes have brought attention to the poor performance of precast reinforced
concrete structures, especially relating to beam-to-column connections. The evaluation of …

The latest earthquakes in Europe exposed some critical problems in the connections of
cladding panels in industrial precast reinforced concrete (PRC) structures. These …

Precast reinforced concrete (PRC) buildings are common on European industrial parks. In
past earthquakes, namely in Italy and Turkey, this typology of buildings showed a poor …

Previous destructive earthquakes caused large economic losses as well as human losses.
Seismic risk studies are of paramount importance to predict the impact of future earthquakes …

As many European countries, the Portuguese territory is a region of moderate seismicity,
and a large part of its building stock includes reinforced concrete (RC) buildings built before …