Full designation:

Seismic PErformance Assessment and Rehabilitation of existing buildings.

Objectives:

The main objective of this project is to develop analysis methods and to reduce the vulnerability of existent RC and masonry buildings, that do not have adequate seismic resistance.

Start date - Duration:

01-06-2002 - 36 months

Research partners:

Universidade of Patras (Greece)

Joint Research Center (EC-Italy)

Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (Portugal)

Universidade of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)

Universidade of Pavia (Italy)

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (UK)

Universidade of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

EQE International Limited (UK)

Higher Technical Institute of Nicosia (Cyprus)

Other partners:

Building Research Institute (Japan)

University of Tokyo (Japan)

Mid-America Earthquake Center (USA)

Middle East Technical University of Ankara (Turkey).

LNEC's team:

Eng.ª Ema Coelho (Coordinator)

Eng.º Alfredo Campos Costa

Eng.º Luís Mendes

Eng.º Paulo Candeias

Eng.ª Maria João Falcão

Eng.º Paulo Morais (LNEC-CIC)

Artur Santos

Dulcina Marecos

Ana Marques

Paulo Semedo

Project site:

www.strulab.civil.upatras.gr/spear/

http://elsa.jrc.it/projects/spear/

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