High Reliability Building Structures: Retrofits, Designs and Applications, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The structural reliability of buildings is a topic encountered on a daily basis. It comprises building design, construction, operation and maintenance practices in order to ensure functionality, especially following events that alter buildings’ state of health. Monitoring new buildings and monitoring and improving existing buildings are increasingly important practices; for most existing buildings, their design life has been reached or will be reached in the near future. For this reason, buildings must be appropriately evaluated (in the case of new constructions) and re-evaluated (in the case of extant buildings) by designers; hence, high reliability must be guaranteed with innovative monitoring techniques and new design philosophies. Cost–benefit analysis procedures that reflect the life cycle of retrofitting solutions are simple. However, determining the parameters necessary to perform such analyses is difficult and requires considerable engineering expertise. Such parameters include the annual probability of ground movements, damage to the structure before and after retrofitting, accident rates, and the extent of building downtime.

Dr. Raffaele Pucinotti
Guest Editor

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• building structures
• structural safety
• reliability
• retrofit
• designs