A Du, X Wang, Y Xie, Y Dong - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Given the devastating losses incurred by past major earthquake events together with the ever-increasing global seismic exposures due to population growth and urbanization …
Resilience indicators are a convenient tool to assess the resilience of engineering systems. They are often used in preliminary designs or in the assessment of complex systems. This …
Bridges are the most vulnerable assets of our transport networks. They are disproportionately exposed to and hit by multiple natural hazards, with flooding being the …
Due to the increasing frequency of disastrous events, the challenge of creating large-scale simulation models has become of major significance. Indeed, several simulation strategies …
Community and infrastructure resilience against natural and man-made hazards is paramount for the well-being of modern societies. To adapt to the fast-changing world …
The multiple uncertainties of both natural and human-caused disasters have attracted increased attention to the topic of resilience engineering. In this paper, an indicator-based …
Q Shang, T Wang, J Li - Structural Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
Hospital emergency departments are highly important systems and treat injured people during earthquakes. It is essential that their functionality is maintained during or recovered …
A large-scale emergency evacuation due to an approaching natural disaster requires local and state administrations to make important decisions regarding evacuation routes …
Residential buildings are designed to withstand earthquake damage because it causes the buildings to be inhabitable for a period of time, called the downtime. This paper introduces a …