A deep-learning-based model for quality assessment of earthquake-induced ground-motion records

M Dupuis, C Schill, R Lee, B Bradley - Earthquake spectra, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
High-quality earthquake ground-motion records are required for various applications in
engineering and seismology; however, quality assessment of ground-motion records is time …

Exploring the site dependency of fragility functions in risk‐targeted design

MJ Fox, GJ O'Reilly - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the ongoing quest for improved seismic design codes, there is currently substantial focus
on risk‐targeted design, which aims to achieve more uniform seismic risk across code …

Performance-based probabilistic framework for seismic risk, resilience, and sustainability assessment of reinforced concrete structures

GA Anwar, Y Dong, C Zhai - Advances in Structural …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent earthquakes have highlighted additional losses due to the lack of resilience of
damaged structures. Environmental impact, as performance indicator, has also received …

Estimation of an imprecise power spectral density function with optimised bounds from scarce data for epistemic uncertainty quantification

M Behrendt, MGR Faes, MA Valdebenito… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In engineering and especially in stochastic dynamics, the modelling of environmental
processes is indispensable in order to design structures safely or to determine the reliability …

Machine learning-based models for estimating seismically-induced slope displacements in subduction earthquake zones

C Liu, J Macedo - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The assessment of the seismic performance of slope systems often relies on estimating the
amount of seismically-induced slope displacements (D) using semi-empirical D models …

New developments for the performance-based assessment of seismically-induced slope displacements

J Macedo, G Candia, M Lacour, C Liu - Engineering Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents new developments for the performance-based assessment of
seismically-induced slope displacements (D). Performance-based procedures enable a …

Arias intensity conditional scaling ground‐motion models for subduction zones

J Macedo, N Abrahamson… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Conditional ground‐motion models (CGMMs) for estimating Arias intensity (⁠ IA⁠) for
earthquakes in subduction zones are developed. The estimate of IA is conditioned in these …

Ensemble region‐specific GMMs for subduction earthquakes

F Sedaghati, S Pezeshk - Seismological Research …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study develops data‐driven global and region‐specific ground‐motion models (GMMs)
for subduction earthquakes using a weighted average ensemble model to combine four …

Seismic performance assessment of post-tensioned CLT shear wall buildings with buckling-restrained axial fuses

H Zhu, MA Bezabeh, A Iqbal… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Post-tensioned cross-laminated timber (PT-CLT) walls have been demonstrated to be a low-
damage seismic force-resisting system (SFRS) due to their self-centering capability …

A nonergodic ground motion model for Chile

J Macedo, C Liu - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this study, we develop a new nonergodic ground motion model (GMM) for Chile, which
better captures the trade‐off between the aleatory variability and epistemic uncertainty on …