During the last two decades fiber-reinforced elastomeric isolators (FREIs) emerged as a promising option to reduce both the cost and weight of rubber bearings. The project ERIES-FREISUST (Fiber-Reinforced Elas-tomeric ...
Base isolation (BI) is one of the most promising techniques for seismic risk mitigation. How-ever, the high cost of traditional isolators undermines the systematic implementation of BI sys-tems in both new and existing ...
The Turkey-Syria earthquake on February 6, 2023, reaffirmed that residential buildings in less developed countries exhibit higher vulnerability, resulting in disproportionate fatalities compared to those in developed ...
Garcia-Ramonda, L.; Ponte, M.; Sadegh Heidari, M.; Lanese, I.; O’Reilly, G. J.; Rizzo Parisi, E.; Graziotti, F.; Pelà, L.; Penna, A.; Magenes, G.; Bento, R.; Guerrini, G.(EPFL, 2025-09)
UnReinforced Masonry (URM) constitutes a significant portion of the historical building stock across Mediterranean regions, particularly in seismic-prone areas. Due to its heterogeneous and non-engineered nature, es-pecially ...
In recent years, probabilistic methods have become the main tool for the seismic assessment of built heritage structures. Nonetheless, proba-bilistic methods based on non-linear time history analyses face the challenge of ...
Quelhas da Silva, B.; Candeias, P.; Carvalho, A. M.; Lemos, J. V.(EPFL, 2025-09)
The Alcântara Valley section of the Águas Livres Aqueduct spans 941 meters and features a limestone masonry structure with a central canal gal-lery covered by a pitched roof and flanked by stone walkways. The aqueduct ...
This paper presents a probabilistic seismic demand model (PSDM) as a relationship between intensity measures (IMs) and engineering demand parameters (EDPs) for the seismic assessment of two case studies resembling historical ...
Ribeiro, F.; Luísa Sousa, M.; Correia, A.A.; Silva, D. S.; Carvalho, A. M.; Vicente, M.; Aires, A.; Godinho, A.(Universiade do Minho, 2024-04)
No âmbito da estratégia de cidade resiliente, a Câmara Municipal de Almada (CMA) solicitou ao Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) a realização de um estudo
de risco sísmico, que visou estabelecer bases científicas ...
The seismic performance of a prefabricated ultra-thin triangular shell dome structure developed in the scope of the Prefabricated Ultra-Thin Concrete Shells project was investigated through shake table tests. Shell dome ...
This paper investigates the applicability and limitations of the guidelines for ground motion selection and scaling provided in the first- and second-generation of Eurocode 8 for the assessment of two unreinforced masonry ...
Bernardo, V.; Candeias, P.; Correia, A.A.(University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2025-03)
Modular construction has been increasingly used worldwide due to its fast assembly, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability; however, the performance of these structures in seismic-prone regions remains a significant ...
Bernardo, V.; Salvalaggio, M.; Lourenço, P.(ICMES, 2025-11)
The Metropolitan Area of Lisbon is one of the regions with highest exposure and seismic risk within Portugal and Europe, particularly due to a vulnerable building stock built prior to the introduction of any seismic ...
Shaghayegh, K.; Kun, J.; Yaghmaei-Sabegh, S.; Hou, R.; Carvalho, A. M.; Lourenço, P.(ELSEVIER, 2025-10)
The Azores archipelago in Portugal, located within a seismically active region, experienced several moderate to strong earthquakes throughout its history, including significant events in 1980 (moment magnitude, Mw 6.9) and ...
Bernardo, V.; Campos Costa, A.; Candeias, P.; Costa, A.; Lourenço, P.(University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2023-03)
The seismic performance of buildings has received special attention due to the interest in the built heritage conservation and protection of human life. The historic urban centers are dominated by old unreinforced masonry ...
Hybrid simulation integrates numerical and experimental techniques to analyze
structural responses under static and dynamic loads. It physically tests components that are
not fully characterized while modeling the rest ...
Ramalho, M.; Matias, L.; Neres, M.; Carafa, M.; Carvalho, A. M.; Teves-Costa, P.(Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2022-01)
Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA), despite its deep criticism, is still the most common tool used to decide on the acceptable seismic risk and corresponding mitigation measures. We propose two consistency tests ...
This paper summarises the project ERIES-ALL4wALL, “Smart ALLoys for WALLs: towards durable structures with long service lives and minimal seismic residual displacements”, which was funded through the Engineering Research ...