Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of a Historical Church: Limit Analysis and Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis

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<table>Madre Santa Maria del Borgo church, San Nicandro, Italy: church walls.</table>

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Figure 3: Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of a Historical Church: Limit Analysis and Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis 