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Pinar Usta
The earthquake performance of structures with seismic isolation is much better than that of fixed-base structures, and the application of seismic insulation ensures both structural integrity and the protection of the items present in the structures. The ...
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Irene Puncello and Silvia Caprili
The relevant losses determined by recent earthquakes stressed the vulnerability of historical masonry constructions towards horizontal seismic actions, therefore highlighting the need for reliable approaches for the structural assessment and following re...
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Sahar Sahyoun, Hua Ge, Michael A. Lacasse and Maurice Defo
This paper evaluates the reliability of the currently used climate-based indices in selecting a moisture reference year (MRY) for the freeze-thaw (FT) damage risk assessment of internally insulated solid brick walls. The evaluation methodology compares t...
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Adolfo Preciado,Fabiola Colmenero
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Historical buildings still existing in different parts of the world were constructed with unreinforced masonry and have an acceptable capacity to transmit vertical loading, but they are very vulnerable against horizontal loading induced by earthquakes. I...
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Antonio Formisano and Ylenia Messineo
In Italy, the interest in the industrial areas dates back to 1970, when industry began to be considered as identity and memory of the population, until 1990, when industrial constructions became cultural and historical goods. This interest was also justi...
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Naida Ademovic, Mirko Toholj, Dalibor Radonic, Filippo Casarin, Sanda Komesar and Karlo Ugarkovic
After a long period of no excessive ground shaking in Croatia and the region of ex-Yugoslavia, an earthquake that woke up the entire region was the one that shook Croatia on 22 March 2020. More than 25,000 buildings were severely damaged. A process of re...
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Denis Miglianico
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Alstom Transport is in the process of retrofitting the entire Danish rolling stocks fleet with the European Train Control System (ETCS) system. This paper describes how Human factors have been integrated in the design process of the final solution in ord...
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Jia Hu, Eric Shen and Yun Gu
In building retrofit projects, dynamic simulations are performed to simulate building performance. Uncertainty may negatively affect model calibration and predicted lighting energy savings, which increases the chance of default on performance-based contr...
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Ilze Pretorius Pretorius, Stuart Piketh, Roelof Burger, Hein Neomagus
This paper investigates trends of historical and projected future South African coal-fired power station criteria (total primary Particulate Matter (PM), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions. It was found th...
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