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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment for Civil and Industrial Infrastructures
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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment for Civil and Industrial Infrastructures

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2022) | Viewed by 4573

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Prof. Dr. Roberto Nascimbene

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Department of Science, Technology and Society, University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS), 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: structural analysis; seismic engineering; industrial structures; advanced modeling and analysis; non-structural elements
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Dear Colleagues,

The functionality and integrity of structures (e.g., hospitals, civil protection buildings, strategic structures, ordinary residential buildings and cultural heritage) and infrastructures (e.g., bridges, logistic centers, and industrial plants) in the aftermath of a severe earthquake is a key issue to ensure sustainable development of our society. Many existing structure and infrastructure inventories in Europe and worldwide, built in the post-war era, are now coming to the end of their design serviceability life. As these structures age, increased attention and care, especially in earthquake prone countries, are needed to ensure that some phenomena, such as corrosion, degradation, and possible existing defects, do not pose a risk to life safety. Within this framework, the papers included in this Special Issue aim to address some of these specific issues and to propose novel approaches for the seismic vulnerability assessment for civil and industrial infrastructures. 

Prof. Dr. Roberto Nascimbene
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Keywords

  • seismic vulnerability
  • seismic assessment
  • industrial facilities
  • bridges
  • existing buildings
  • strategic structures
  • advanced modeling and analysis

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Influence of Seismic Loads Considering Soil Properties and Wave Passage Effect on the Seismic Response of a Multi-Span PSC Girder Bridge
by Gun Park, Yeong-Mo Yeon, Ki-Nam Hong and Sugyu Lee
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(3), 1415; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031415 - 28 Jan 2022
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This paper investigates the analytical results of the seismic response of multi-span prestressed concrete (PSC) I-girder bridges under seismic loads. To perform numerical analyses, a three-span PSC I-girder bridge with a width of 12 m, a total length of 100 m, and a [...] Read more.
This paper investigates the analytical results of the seismic response of multi-span prestressed concrete (PSC) I-girder bridges under seismic loads. To perform numerical analyses, a three-span PSC I-girder bridge with a width of 12 m, a total length of 100 m, and a maximum span length of 40 m was modeled, and a virtual location was selected to consider the soil properties of the area where the bridge was constructed. The seismic load acting on the PSC I-girder bridge was applied in consideration of the soil properties around the pier and the wave passage effect of the bedrock in the artificial seismic load generated, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) standard. The analysis results confirmed that the seismic load, with consideration of the soil properties and wave passage effect, generated the maximum response acceleration and bending moment at the deck of the bridge—152% and 232% greater than without considering them, respectively. Therefore, in order to ensure the earthquake resistance of the bridge, the soil properties of the area where the bridge will be built and the wave passage effect of the bedrock must be considered. Full article
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Static and Seismic Responses of Eco-Friendly Buried Concrete Pipes with Various Dosages of Fly Ash
by Sayedali Mostofizadeh and Kong Fah Tee
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(24), 11700; https://doi.org/10.3390/app112411700 - 09 Dec 2021
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In this paper, an evaluation based on the detailed failure has been conducted for underground sewage Geopolymer concrete (GPC) pipes under static and seismic loadings with consideration of the optimal time steps in the time-dependent process related to nonlinear behavior of GPC pipes [...] Read more.
In this paper, an evaluation based on the detailed failure has been conducted for underground sewage Geopolymer concrete (GPC) pipes under static and seismic loadings with consideration of the optimal time steps in the time-dependent process related to nonlinear behavior of GPC pipes in static and dynamic analyses. The ANSYS platform is employed for improving an advanced FE model for a GPC pipe which can simulate the performance of underground GPC pipes containing various percentages of fly ash (FA) as a Portland cement (PC) replacement. Subsequently, the time-dependent model is used to assess the efficacy of this concrete admixture (FA) in the structural response of the unreinforced GPC pipe in FEM. Indeed, the generated GPC pipe with the three-dimensional model has the potential to capture the nonlinear behavior of concrete which depicts the patterns of tensile cracking and compressive crushing that occur over the applied static loads in the FE model. The main issue in this paper is the assessment of the GPC pipe response typically based on the displacement due to static and seismic loadings. The numerical results demonstrated that the optimal displacement was obtained when the structural response had typically the lowest value for GPC pipes containing 10–30% FA and 20% FA under static and seismic loadings, respectively. Indeed, a reduction by 25% for the vertical displacement of a GPC pipe containing 20% FA was observed compared to that without FA under time-history analysis. Full article
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