River Buna is one of the largest rivers in our country, which flow into the Adriatic Sea with a total length of around 44 km. Buna River 1.5 km after flowing out of Shkodra Lake joins Drini River creating a very complex ...

Contemporary research in architecture recognises the enduring influence of neo-brutalist poetry in the simplicity of construction and simple linguistics of many developments inspired by minimalist asceticism that are ...

The aim of the paper is to detect the damage of the bell tower of the Church “Santa Maria della Natività”, Noci (Bari, Italy) that in 2012 was hit by a lightning and to propose a retrofitting solution. The solution must ...

The aim of this paper is to present new analytical and computational approaches for assessing the structural safety of “false vaults” structures like Trulli, and more generally for corbelled structures. In particular, the ...

The rapid growth of the transportation sector during the last decade in Albania has created many problems particularly in Tirana such as air pollution, energy consumption, and loss of urban ‘living space’. Different from ...

Characteristics of seismic activity along the Vlora- Lushnja-Elbasani-Dibra (V-L-E-D) Transversal Fault Zone are analyzed between 1964 and 2015. There are a total of 2814 events in the time interval 1964 and 2015 with ...

The compressive strength of core concrete is affected by many parameters and one of them is the strength of the concrete, which affects the strength of the core compressive strength. This is achieved by using correction ...

The effects of restoration on the experimental dynamic characteristics of historical masonry Molla Siyah Mosque in Trabzon, Turkey, are investigated in this paper. Firstly, the initial situation and the implemented restoration ...

Architectural and urban heritage, can form and support the competitiveness of the town, opening up extra chances for employment, investment and social life - on a higher level than the concurrence does. But to achieve such ...

Recently we are using the European Codes for the design of structures for earthquake resistance but in some cases even European Code doesn’t gives realistic results. For irregular structures the European Code gives very ...