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Churches struck by the earthquake sequence of 2016–2017 in Central Italy confirmed their seismic vulnerability, significantly higher than the one of other unreinforced masonry structures. This resulted in a much wider area affected by significant damages to churches, which were characterised by a rich variability of materials, typologies,...

Five existing unreinforced masonry buildings, built in different Italian cities in a relatively recent time frame, were selected to study the seismic behaviour of modern existing structures, not designed to withstand seismic actions. The buildings were modelled using an equivalent-frame approach, adopting, and comparing two nonlinear...

This work presents a comprehensive strategy for analysing the complex seismic response of five Italian historical URM buildings, corresponding to different periods until 1920s. One distinctive feature of historical buildings is the need for integrating global modelling and local response of structural portions, due to possible activation of...