Chapter 1 The Full-Scale Laboratory: The Practice of Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Missions and Their Contribution to Earthquake Engineering

Chapter 2 Rapid Earthquake Loss Assessment After Damaging Earthquakes

Chapter 3 Existing Buildings: The New Italian Provisions for Probabilistic Seismic Assessment

Chapter 4 Seismic Response of Precast Industrial Buildings

Chapter 5 The Role of Site Effects at the Boundary Between Seismology and Engineering: Lessons from Recent Earthquakes

Chapter 6 Seismic Analysis and Design of Bridges with an Emphasis to Eurocode Standards

Chapter 7 From Performance- and Displacement-Based Assessment of Existing Buildings per EN1998-3 to Design of New Concrete Structures in fib MC2010

Chapter 8 Testing Historic Masonry Elements and/or Building Models

Chapter 9 Earthquake Risk Reduction: From Scenario Simulators Including Systemic Interdependency to Impact Indicators

Chapter 10 Physics-Based Earthquake Ground Shaking Scenarios in Large Urban Areas

Chapter 11 A Seismic Performance Classification Framework to Provide Increased Seismic Resilience

Chapter 12 Towards Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Modern Unreinforced Masonry Structures

Chapter 13 Pushover Analysis for Plan Irregular Building Structures

Chapter 14 Recent Development and Application of Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation and Conditions for Their Correct Use

Chapter 15 Conservation Principles and Performance Based Strengthening of Heritage Buildings in Post-event Reconstruction

Chapter 16 Earthquake Risk Assessment: Present Shortcomings and Future Directions

Chapter 17 The Role of Pile Diameter on Earthquake-Induced Bending

Chapter 18 Predictive Models for Earthquake Response of Clay and Sensitive Clay Slopes

Chapter 19 Recent Advances in Seismic Soil Liquefaction Engineering

Chapter 20 Seismic Hazard and Seismic Design and Safety Aspects of Large Dam Projects