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Takewaki I, Kohiyama M, Trombetti T, Tesfamariam S, Lu X. Front. Built Environ. 2019; 5: e94. |
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(Copyright © 2019, The Author(s), Publisher Frontiers Media) |
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Abstract |
Resilient buildings and cities are in the center of common interests in modern academic communities for science and engineering related to built environment. Resilience of buildings and cities against multidisciplinary risks, e.g., earthquakes, strong winds, floods, etc., is strongly related to the sustainability of buildings and cities in which reduction of damage during a disaster and fast recovery from the damage are key issues. The reduction of damage is related to the level of resistance of buildings and the time of recovery is affected by the amount of supply of damaged members, assurance of restoration work, etc. Robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and rapidity are four key factors for supporting the full realization of design and construction of resilient buildings and cities. This Research Topic gathers cutting-edge and innovative research from various aspects, e.g., robustness of buildings and cities against earthquake risk, structural control and base-isolation for controlling damage risks, quantification of resilience measures, structural health monitoring, innovative structural engineering techniques for higher safety of buildings, resilience actions and tools at the urban scale, etc. After a detailed review, the following eight papers have been published in this Research Topic, i.e., collapse risk assessment of reinforced-concrete buildings, robustness evaluation of building structures considering the whole generation process of earthquake ground motions, multi-hazard prevention and mitigation in building structures, robustness evaluation of building structures with long natural period, optimal viscous damper placement for elastic-plastic structures subjected to the critical double impulse, proposal of configurations in concentrically steel braced frame, deformability of pipes in buildings as non-structural members, assessment of seismic vulnerability of buildings at regional scale... Language: en |
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Keywords |
Earthquake risk; Monitoring; resilience; robustness; structural control |