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The in-plane (2d) response of rigid rocking blocks has been extensively studied. In order to use rocking as a seismic response modification strategy for large structures [...]
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This paper presents an earthquake damage and repair cost prediction framework for individual residential buildings and portfolios of residential buildings in a municipal [...]
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Existing buildings constructed in earthquake prone locations designed prior to 1970s, in general, fail to meet the criteria of modern seismic design codes. This leads in [...]
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An engineering risk-based multi-level stress test, named ST@STREST, is proposed aimed at enhancing procedures for evaluation of the risk exposure of critical non-nuclear [...]
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Critical Infrastructures (CIs) provide essential goods and services for modern society; they are highly integrated and have growing mutual dependencies. Recent natural ev [...]
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This study serves three purposes: (i) to review appropriate metrics for life safety (ii), to provide the outline of a robust mathematical framework quantifying and compar [...]
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In order to examine the seismic resilience of the integrated electric power supply, transportation and community system, an Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) framework is develo [...]
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In this study a Bayesian Probabilistic Network (BPN) is presented to assess the community demand for the services provided by civil infrastructure systems during the abso [...]
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Mechanics of structural behavior in fire and fire-resistant design of structures are based on data from standard fire tests of single structural components. Experimental [...]
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Hybrid simulation is an experimental method which combines the well known substructure testing techniques with numerical finite element simulation to study the response o [...]
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