Vulnerability is a fundamental component of risk and its understanding is important for characterising the reliability of infrastructure assets and systems and for mitigating risks. The …
The exposure of critical infrastructure to natural and human-induced hazards has severe consequences on world economies and societies. Therefore, resilience assessment of …
The paper presents a machine-learning based framework, named VULMA (VULnerability analysis using MAchine-learning), for vulnerability analysis of existing buildings. The …
The paper presents an automated procedure for deriving fragility curves for typological masonry aggregates, named META-FORMA-XL (MEchanical-Typological Approach FOR …
The paper presents an analytical-mechanical based procedure to estimate the seismic overall fragility of existing reinforced concrete building portfolios in town compartments, as …
Risk assessment and mitigation programs have been carried out over the last decades in the attempt to reduce transportation infrastructure downtime and post-disaster recovery …
Cities in the developing world are facing outstanding economic and human losses caused by natural hazards such as earthquakes, and the amount of losses is affected by the quality …
Geothermal energy is a green source of power that could play an important role in climate‐ conscious energy portfolios; enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) have the potential to …
This study focuses on scoring, selecting, and developing physical fragility (ie, the probability of reaching or exceeding a certain damage state given a specific hazard intensity) and/or …