Mario De Stefano – författare

This volume contains papers of the 10th European Workshop on the Seismic Behaviour of Irregular and Complex Structures (10EWICS) held in Catania, Italy, in 2023.

This international event provided a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas and unveiled new insights on the possibilities and challenges of irregular and complex structures under seismic actions. The topics addressed include criteria for regularity and design of buildings with structural irregularity/complexity, assessment and retrofit of buildings with structural irregularity/complexity, irregularity /complexity in high-rise buildings, historical constructions and bridges, soil-structure interaction and special cases of irregularity. Beyond an excellent number of interesting papers on these topics, this volume includes the paper of an invited lecture devoted to rocking seismic resisting systems with focus to concepts, analysis, design, and applicability to irregular buildings.

The book is intented for all the community involved in the challenging task of seismic design, assessment and/or retrofit of irregular and complex structures.

Irregular engineering structures are subjected to complicated additional loads which are often beyond conventional design models developed for traditional, simplified plane models. This book covers detailed research and recent progress in seismic engineering dealing with seismic behaviour of irregular and set-back engineering structures. Experimental results as well as special topics of modern design are discussed in detail. In addition, recent progress in seismology, wave propagation and seismic engineering, which provides novel, modern modelling of complex seismic loads, is reported. Particular emphasis is placed on the newly developed rotational, seismic ground-motion effects.

This book is a continuation of an earlier monograph which appeared in the same Springer series in 2013 (http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789400753761).