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(a) RRS associated with horizontal direction defined by AC156 (International Code Council Evaluation Service (ICC-ES), 2012) considering design earthquake spectral response acceleration parameter at short periods (SDS) equal to 0.40 g and z/h equal to one and (b) spectral responses of two reference seismic signals (latitudinal and longitudinal signals corresponding to thin black and thick gray graphs, respectively) defined in FEMA 461 [Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 2007].

(a) RRS associated with horizontal direction defined by AC156 (International Code Council Evaluation Service (ICC-ES), 2012) considering design earthquake spectral response acceleration parameter at short periods (SDS) equal to 0.40 g and z/h equal to one and (b) spectral responses of two reference seismic signals (latitudinal and longitudinal signals corresponding to thin black and thick gray graphs, respectively) defined in FEMA 461 [Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 2007].

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Nonstructural elements (NEs) are typically associated with major seismic risk, as several postevent surveys and literature studies highlighted in the last few decades. NE seismic risk is often expressed in terms of critical functioning disruption, economic losses, and casualties, and this might be significant even in the case of low seismicity site...

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... details regarding FEMA 461 signals can be found in [ et al., 2021a]. Figure 1a shows RRS associated with horizontal direction defined by AC156 considering design earthquake spectral response acceleration parameter at short periods (SDS) equal to 0.40 g, where z/h is assumed equal to one (z/h is the ratio between the height location of NE and the building height). SDS equal to 0.40 g represents a relatively severe seismic intensity levels considering European and Italian territory. ...

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