• Do directionality effects influence expected damage? A case study of the 2017 central Mexico earthquake 

  Pinzón, Luis A.; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Díaz, Sergio Alberto; Alva, Rodrigo Esteban (2018-10)
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  We analyze the case of a building that collapsed in a multifamily complex of Tlalpan borough in Mexico City during the 19 September 2017 Central Mexico earthquake. Despite having similar materials and similar structural ...
• Directionality models from ground motions of Italy 

  Pinzón, Luis A.; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Hidalgo Leiva, D.A.; Díaz, Sergio Alberto (2018-09)
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  Directionality effects on the expected strong ground motion in Italy are investigated. After a brief description of the directionality effect and the intensity measures involved, a wide Italian database of strong ground ...
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  Analysis and calibration of Ground Penetrating Radar shielded antennas 

  Rasol, M.; Pérez Gracia, María de la Vega; Santos Assunçao, Sonia (2018)
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  Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a non-destructive geophysical method applied in many civil engineering applications. The knowledge of the GPR antennas behavior is crucial to obtain accurate results and comprehensive data ...
• Earthquake risk scenarios in urban areas: a review with applications to the Ciutat Vella district in Barcelona, Spain 

  Lantada Zarzosa, Maria de Las Nieves; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro (Taylor & Francis, 2018-09)
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  The vulnerability index and capacity spectrum-based methods used to assess the expected physical damage in dwellings are revisited, and their main advantages and shortcomings are analyzed and discussed. Then, a vulnerability ...
• Probabilistic assessment of seismic risk of dwelling buildings of Barcelona: implications for the city resilience 

  Aguilar Meléndez, Armando; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Puente, Josep de la; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Lantada Zarzosa, Maria de Las Nieves (Springer, 2019)
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  This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard ...
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  Probabilistic dynamic analysis of steel buildings with long duration earthquakes 

  Díaz Alvarado, Sergio A.; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Hidalgo Leiva, Diego Antonio; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (2018-01)
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  The probabilistic analysis of the seismic performance of a structure requires quantifying the uncertainties of the involved variables and parameters, including the seismic action and mechanical properties of its elements. ...
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  Integrated dynamic and thermography investigation of Mallorca cathedral 

  Elyamani, Ahmed; Caselles Magallón, Josep Oriol; Roca Fabregat, Pedro; Clapes Boixader, Jaime (University of the Aegean, 2018-01)
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  An integrated investigation of engineering archaeometry was carried out using dynamic identification, dynamic monitoring and Infra-Red (IR) thermography for the study of the dynamic behavior of Mallorca cathedral in Spain. ...
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  GPR clutter amplitude processing to detect shallow geological targets 

  Salinas Nadal, Victor; Santos Assunçao, Sonia; Pérez Gracia, María de la Vega (2018-01-01)
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  The analysis of clutter in A-scans produced by energy randomly scattered in some specific geological structures, provides information about changes in the shallow sedimentary geology. The A-scans are composed by the coherent ...
• GPR building inspection: Examples of building structures assessed with Ground Penetrating Radar 

  Pérez Gracia, María de la Vega; Caselles Magallón, Josep Oriol; Clapés Boixader, Jaume; Santos Assunçao, Sonia (University of Edinburgh, 2017)
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  The GPR assessment of buildings depends on the structure or part of the building studied. In this paper, three different case study are presented, all of them about old buildings that need to be restored or modified. ...
• Return period curves for extreme 5-min rainfall amounts at the Barcelona urban network 

  Lana Pons, Francisco Javier; Casas Castillo, M. del Carmen; Serra de Larrocha, Carina; Rodríguez Solá, Raúl; Redaño Xipell, Angel; Burgueño Rivero, August; Martínez Santafé, Maria Dolors (2018-03-06)
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  Heavy rainfall episodes are relatively common in the conurbation of Barcelona and neighbouring cities (NE Spain), usually due to storms generated by convective phenomena in summer and eastern and south-eastern advections ...
• Capacity, damage and fragility models for steel buildings: a probabilistic approach 

  Díaz-Alvarado, S.A.; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Hidalgo Leiva, D.A.; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (2018-03)
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  Recently proposed capacity-based damage indices and parametric models for capacity curves are applied to frame steel buildings located in soft soils of the Mexico City. To do that, the seismic performance of 2D models of ...
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  Earthquake static stress transfer in the 2013 Gulf of Valencia (Spain) seismic sequence 

  Salo Salgado, Lluis; Frontera Genovard, Tànit; Goula Suriñach, Xavier; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Ledesma Villalba, Alberto (2017-09-05)
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  On 24 September 2013, an Ml 3.6 earthquake struck in the Gulf of Valencia (Spain) near the Mediterranean coast of Castelló, roughly 1 week after gas injections conducted in the area to develop underground gas storage had ...

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