Luís Sousa

824 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 568 citations indexed

About

Luís Sousa is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Luís Sousa has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 568 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 3 papers in Environmental Engineering and 3 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Luís Sousa's work include Seismic Performance and Analysis (14 papers), Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (9 papers) and Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis (9 papers). Luís Sousa is often cited by papers focused on Seismic Performance and Analysis (14 papers), Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (9 papers) and Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis (9 papers). Luís Sousa collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Portugal and United Kingdom. Luís Sousa's co-authors include Vítor Silva, Helen Crowley, Ricardo Monteiro, Rui Pinho, Mário Marques, Humberto Varum, Carmine Galasso, Venetia Despotaki, Luigi Di Sarno and Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis and has published in prestigious journals such as Engineering Structures, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Spectra.

In The Last Decade

Luís Sousa

16 papers receiving 545 citations

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Innovations in earthquake risk reduction for resilience: Recent advances and challenges

2021 147 citations Fabio Freddi, Carmine Galasso et al. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luís Sousa Italy	11	457	98	95	68	61	16	568
Fabrizio Meroni Italy	11	357 0.8×	48 0.5×	120 1.3×	66 1.0×	35 0.6×	37	506
Karim Tarbali New Zealand	13	434 0.9×	61 0.6×	90 0.9×	76 1.1×	18 0.3×	29	562
Ana Beatriz Acevedo Colombia	9	650 1.4×	91 0.9×	180 1.9×	32 0.5×	60 1.0×	16	803
Moustafa Moufid Kassem Malaysia	15	513 1.1×	120 1.2×	37 0.4×	48 0.7×	37 0.6×	34	610
Anirudh Rao Italy	8	280 0.6×	65 0.7×	116 1.2×	32 0.5×	39 0.6×	22	357
Rui Maio Portugal	14	485 1.1×	177 1.8×	55 0.6×	95 1.4×	97 1.6×	21	776
Maria Polese Italy	20	1.1k 2.4×	235 2.4×	104 1.1×	53 0.8×	55 0.9×	56	1.2k
Catarina Costa Italy	9	291 0.6×	51 0.5×	104 1.1×	40 0.6×	36 0.6×	10	369
Άννα Καρατζέτζου Greece	13	344 0.8×	46 0.5×	118 1.2×	28 0.4×	32 0.5×	31	443
Nicola Tarque Peru	15	659 1.4×	305 3.1×	93 1.0×	51 0.8×	62 1.0×	49	781

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16 of 16 papers shown

Sousa, Luís, et al.. (2023). Impact of ground‐motion duration on nonlinear structural performance: Part II: site‐ and building‐specific analysis. Earthquake Spectra. 39(2). 860–888. 11 indexed citations

Gentile, Roberto, et al.. (2023). Impact of ground‐motion duration on nonlinear structural performance: Part I: spectrally equivalent records and inelastic single‐degree‐of‐freedom systems. Earthquake Spectra. 39(2). 829–859. 11 indexed citations

Gentile, Roberto, et al.. (2022). Accounting for earthquake‐induced ground‐motion duration in building‐portfolio loss assessment. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 52(4). 887–909. 6 indexed citations

Freddi, Fabio, Carmine Galasso, Gemma Cremen, et al.. (2021). Innovations in earthquake risk reduction for resilience: Recent advances and challenges. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 60. 102267–102267. 147 indexed citations breakdown →

Gentile, Roberto, et al.. (2021). INVESTIGATING GROUND-MOTION DURATION EFFECTS ON BUILDING PORTFOLIO LOSS ESTIMATES. COMPDYN Proceedings. 3360–3376. 1 indexed citations

Crowley, Helen, Venetia Despotaki, Vítor Silva, et al.. (2020). Exposure model for European seismic risk assessment. Earthquake Spectra. 36(1S). 252–273. 107 indexed citations

Sousa, Luís & Ricardo Monteiro. (2018). Seismic retrofit options for non-structural building partition walls: Impact on loss estimation and cost-benefit analysis. Engineering Structures. 161. 8–27. 71 indexed citations

Sousa, Luís, Mário Marques, Vítor Silva, & Humberto Varum. (2017). Hazard Disaggregation and Record Selection for Fragility Analysis and Earthquake Loss Estimation. Earthquake Spectra. 33(2). 529–549. 8 indexed citations

Despotaki, Venetia, Luís Sousa, & Christopher G. Burton. (2017). Using Resilience Indicators in the Prediction of Earthquake Recovery. Earthquake Spectra. 34(1). 265–282. 13 indexed citations

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Sousa, Luís, Vítor Silva, Mário Marques, & Helen Crowley. (2017). On the treatment of uncertainty in seismic vulnerability and portfolio risk assessment. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 47(1). 87–104. 24 indexed citations

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Sousa, Luís, Vítor Silva, & Paolo Bazzurro. (2016). Using Open‐Access Data in the Development of Exposure Data Sets of Industrial Buildings for Earthquake Risk Modeling. Earthquake Spectra. 33(1). 63–84. 18 indexed citations

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Sousa, Luís, Vítor Silva, Mário Marques, & Helen Crowley. (2016). On the treatment of uncertainties in the development of fragility functions for earthquake loss estimation of building portfolios. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 45(12). 1955–1976. 38 indexed citations

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Sousa, Luís, Vítor Silva, Mário Marques, Helen Crowley, & Rui Pinho. (2014). Including Multiple IMTs in the Development of Fragility Functions for Earthquake Loss Estimation. 1716–1725. 15 indexed citations

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Marques, Mário, Luís Martins, José Miguel Castro, et al.. (2014). Influence of Record Selection Procedures on Seismic Loss Estimations. 39. 1756–1766. 4 indexed citations

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Silva, Vítor, Helen Crowley, Humberto Varum, Rui Pinho, & Luís Sousa. (2014). Investigation of the characteristics of Portuguese regular moment-frame RC buildings and development of a vulnerability model. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 13(5). 1455–1490. 86 indexed citations

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Silva, Vítor, Helen Crowley, Humberto Varum, Rui Pinho, & Luís Sousa. (2014). Development of a Fragility Model for Moment-Frame RC Buildings in Portugal. 525–534. 8 indexed citations

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