Foundation Performance of Millennium Tower In San Francisco, California Subscription form  Abstract: The Millennium Tower is a 58-story reinforced concrete building that was constructed in San Francisco, California between 2005 and 2009. The Tower is founded on an embedded pile-supported mat with pile tips bearing in dense marine deposits that overlie an […]

      The influence of soil-foundation-structure interaction on the seismic performance of masonry buildings Subscription form  Abstract: Most of the damage and of the casualties induced even by the most recent strong-motion earthquakes which stroke Central and Southern Italy can be attributed to the extreme seismic vulnerability of the ordinary residential buildings. Both in […]

      Urban-scale seismic risk assessment: (how) does it change if we include SSI and site amplification effects? Subscription form  Abstract: Seismic risk assessment is still performed at an urban scale assuming all structures and the man-made environment are fixed on the soil. Intuitively, one could argue that this is the case if only […]