Lezioni dai terremoti: fonti di vulnerabilità, nuove strategie progettuali, sviluppi normativi

a cura di Nudo, Raffaele

Raffaele Nudo is associate professor of Building Design in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence. He is a member of the European Association of Seismic Engineering and of the Italian section of the American Concrete Institute. His academic activity has been addressed to various problems of structural safety relating to different types of construction, with specific reference to constructions in seismic areas. He has published more than 70 essays and articles in journals, books and conference proceedings.

Serie: Proceedings e report

This book is a collection of the academic contributions presented at the conference entitled "Lessons from earthquakes: sources of vulnerability, new design strategies and regulatory developments" which was held at Chianciano Terme on 8 October 2010. The issues addressed are central to Seismic Engineering and comprise a wide range of arguments on both consolidated subjects and innovative aspects in the sector. Among these, appropriate attention is devoted to: analysis of the structural instability revealed on the occasion of seismic events and the lessons that can be drawn from the same; the procedures of assessment of the existing buildings, starting from the phase of monitoring and diagnostics through to the definition of the most opportune intervention techniques; the use of composite materials and alternative methods of seismic protection; non-linear field modelling relating to regular and non-regular structures; and finally, the development of the methods of calculation that have characterised the evolution of the regulatory codes.