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Probabilistic performance assessment of seismically excited buildings with semi-active fluid viscous dampers [PDF]
Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering, 2022 This paper presents a procedure to assess the probabilistic performance of the semi-active fluid viscous dampers (SAFVDs) utilized in seismically excited buildings. Some efficient on-off semi-active control algorithms based on motion towards or away from
Ali Asghar Naderi +2 more
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Fragility of Hydraulic Elevators for Use in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering [PDF]
, 2007 New performance-based earthquake engineering methods developed by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, the Applied Technology Council, and others include damage analysis at a highly detailed level, requiring the compilation of fragility ...
Porter, Keith
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Creating Fragility Functions for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering [PDF]
, 2007 The Applied Technology Council is adapting PEER's performance-based earthquake engineering methodology to professional practice. The methodology's damage-analysis stage uses fragility functions to calculate the probability of damage to facility ...
Bachman, Robert +2 more
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Fragility in p-spin models [PDF]
, 2004 We investigate the relation between fragility and phase space properties - such as the distribution of states - in the mean field p-spin model, a solvable model that has been frequently used in studies of the glass transition.
Parisi, G., Ruocco, G., Zamponi, F.
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Seismic Fragility Assessment of Cable-Stayed Bridges Crossing Fault Rupture Zones
Buildings, 2022 Current studies lack probabilistic evaluations on the performance of fault-crossing bridges. This paper conducts seismic fragility analyses to evaluate the fragility of cable-stayed bridges with the effects of fault ruptures.
Junjun Guo +4 more
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Seismic Fragility Analysis of Monopile Offshore Wind Turbines under Different Operational Conditions
Energies, 2017 Offshore wind turbines in seismic active areas suffer from earthquake impacts. In this study, seismic fragility analysis of a monopile offshore wind turbine considering different operational conditions was performed.
Renjie Mo +3 more
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Buildings, 2021 Uncertainty quantification is an important issue in the seismic fragility analysis of bridge type structures. However, the influence of different sources of uncertainty on the seismic fragility of the system is commonly overlooked due to the costly re ...
Phuong Hoa Hoang +3 more
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Robustness of the European power grids under intentional attack [PDF]
, 2007 The power grid defines one of the most important technological networks of our times and sustains our complex society. It has evolved for more than a century into an extremely huge and seemingly robust and well understood system. But it becomes extremely
B. A. Carreras +10 more
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Seismic Retrofit of Vulnerable Steel Frames Using Articulated Quadrilateral bracing system [PDF]
Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering, 2019 This paper investigates the applicabilty of an innovative bracing, called Articulated Quadrilateral (AQ) bracing system, which uses shape memory alloys (SMAs), for retroffiting low-rise to high-rise vulnerable SMFRs against strong ground motions.
E. Darvishan
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Applied Sciences, 2022 The purpose of this paper was to investigate the influence of long-term corrosion on the deterioration of wind resistance of a steel transmission tower during its service life.
Qiang Li +7 more
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