Earthquake early warning (EEW) is a relatively new strategy for reducing disaster risk and increasing resilience to seismic hazard in urban settings. EEW systems provide real-time …
Modern seismic design and the retrofitting of buildings necessarily need to account for expected economic losses. Available refined and simplified procedures implemented in …
The value-based seismic design framework is a new design method that efficiently balances the construction resources and the seismic consequences, through reliable evaluation of the …
The estimation of direct and indirect losses due to earthquakes is a key issue in the Performance Based Earthquake Engineering framework. In commonly adopted loss …
N Hussain, MS Alam, A Mwafy - Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Earlier research on seismic response modification coefficients predominantly relied on two- dimensional (2D) nonlinear analysis with uniaxial seismic loading and overlooked the …
Performance-based earthquake engineering organizes the explicit quantification of building seismic performance and risk, facilitating risk-informed design and mitigation decisions …
M Bosio, A Belleri, P Riva, A Marini - Journal of earthquake …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Economic losses associated with the structural and non-structural damage occurring after an earthquake are of particular importance in the case of industrial buildings due to the …
Several earthquakes have affected school infrastructure, compromising the safety of students and all the educational community. These damages are not caused solely by the …
This article presents the current state-of-practice with respect to quantifying the total cost to retrofit an existing building. In particular, we combine quantitative, qualitative, and heuristic …