Earthquakes are nearly unique among natural phenomena-they affect virtually everything within a region, from massive buildings and bridges, down to the furnishings within a home …
S Akkar, JJ Bommer - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Peak ground velocity (pgv) has many applications in earthquake engineering, but there are relatively few prediction equations for this parameter in comparison with the large numbers …
JJ Bommer, JE Alarcon - Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 2006 - World Scientific
Peak ground velocity (PGV) has received much less attention in the technical literature than more widely-used parameters such as peak ground acceleration (PGA) and response …
Earthquakes may cause severe damage to the technological infrastructure and to transport systems handling hazardous substances as oil, natural gas and flammable/toxic chemicals …
This paper investigates the efficiency and sufficiency of various seismic intensity measures for the structural assessment of buried steel natural gas (NG) pipelines subjected to axial …
O Pineda-Porras, M Najafi - Journal of Pipeline Systems …, 2010 - ascelibrary.org
This paper analyzes the evolution over the past three decades of seismic damage estimation for buried pipelines and identifies some challenges for future research studies on …
Pipelines are lifeline structures, as any significant disruption to the performance of these systems often translates into undesirable impacts on the economics and the living conditions …
A large dataset of water pipeline damage from the February and June 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand is used to fit and compare four mathematical model types …
The research described in this work represents the first time that comprehensive geographic information system (GIS) analyses were performed for a large US water supply with …