The objective in this work is to predict and minimize the total life-cycle cost of buildings, from construction through extreme events until deconstruction or demolition. [...]

This paper will present an extension of the computer program Rt, a program first presented by Mahsuli & Haukaas in 2012. A key motivation behind Rt is to facilitate p [...]

This paper addresses the need for new measures and models of infrastructure performance that can facilitate the strengthening of community resilience to disasters. While [...]

This paper suggests two improvements to the modeling of damage in contemporary performance-based earthquake engineering. Prior to describing these developments, a review [...]

This paper puts forward an approach for performance-based engineering and infrastructure risk analysis. The methodology is implemented in a new general-purpose software t [...]