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Two different way of assessing seismic vulnerability are available nowadays: observed or empirical and calculated vulnerability assessment methods. The first methods are based on observed damage after earthquakes correlated with the structural properties of buildings, whereas the second methods are based on numerical models more or less representing the buildings. In both cases, the trouble is the imperfect knowledge of existing buildings. We propose here a new method for estimating the vulnerability based on experimental modal parameters (resonance frequencies, modal shapes and damping ratio) estimated under ambient vibrations. They allow to build up a simplified numerical model of the elastic building behaviour. The motion produced by numerous earthquakes leads to determine its first damage level and therefore its vulnerability. An inter-story drift threshold based on HAZUS values defines the first damage level of the building. This method is applied to the Grenoble (France) city in which 60 buildings have been instrumented.
The paper presents a new stiffness modelling method for overconstrained parallel manipulators, which is applied to 3-d.o.f. translational mechanisms. It is based on a multidimensional lumped-parameter model that replaces the link flexibility by local
The [ISO 1101] standard specifies the form errors with geometrical tolerances using the zone concept.To complete this concept, we present a generic method which adapts to any geometry and allows to describe any kind of errors. Thus,we can dissociate
The first parts of the thesis recalls the main features of the large MACRO experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory. It then describes the atmospheric muons measured by the experiment and the selection criteria to obtain and analyze a larg
We describe a conjectural construction (in the spirit of Hilberts 12th problem) of units in abelian extensions of certain base fields which are neither totally real nor CM. These base fields are quadratic extensions with exactly one complex place of
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