As the number of tall buildings in seismic areas around the world continues to grow, the ability to perform loss assessments becomes increasingly important. Due to their [...]

Avoidance of collapse is the most important objective in earthquake resistant design, but assessing the probability of collapse of a structure during an earthquake is tec [...]

Seismic design codes are primarily aimed at protecting human life, but they are not intended to minimize or even calculate the earthquake-induced economic losses that a b [...]