Federico Mazzolani is Emeritus professor University of Naples Federico II | UNINA · Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture. Vincenzo Piluso is Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy.

'The book is to be commended to those engineers sho want to extend their knowledge beyond the basic and who want to tackle the enormous challenges which earthquake engineering introduces.' - The Structural Engineer

• Preface. Notation. Basic seismic design criteria. Global ductility of MR-frames. Local ductility of steel beams and beam-columns. Evaluation of the q-factor. Overall stability effects. Behaviour of connections. Seismic behaviour of semirigid frames. Structural regularity. Influence of random material variability. Influence of claddings. Index.