One of the most widespread structural systems is represented by Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs). resistant seismic frames. This structural system is made up of frames capable of resisting seismic actions through predominantly ...

Weather induced landslides cause a large number of casualties as well as severe economic losses worldwide every year. Such a diffuse risk cannot be mitigated only by means of structural works, typically characterized ...

Large deformation analysis has become recently centre of attraction in geotechnical design. It is used to predict geotechnical boundary value problems such as, excessive movement of soil masses like landslides or soil-structure ...

In the last decades, atmospheric pollution has become an increasingly alarming problem, due to its adverse effects at the global, regional and local scales. In this context, the emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), Volatile ...

Since the end of the eighties, numerous studies have been conducted analysing the relationship between the infrastructures and the economic development of the territory, highlighting its close correlation. In the last ...

The research was aimed at developing a technical-economic governance model for the enhancement of railway assets and in particular of unmanned or underused stations. Through the analysis of the most recent examples of ...

Granular flows, such as debris avalanches, debris flows and rock avalanches, involve the rapid motion of granular mixtures consisting of sediments, water and air. They occur on steep slopes and in the hydrographic network ...

The development of the direct biomass utilization for diverse industrial applications is turning the organic solid waste into one of the most promising feedstocks for the production of wide spectrum of competitive bio-based ...

This dissertation presents continuum and discrete approaches to the statics of masonry vaults. The thrust surface concept is introduced within Heyman’s safe theorem and extends the funicular curve to the3D case. A variational ...