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Seismic Fragility of Gravity and Semi‐Gravity Retaining Walls and Its Impact on the Functionality Loss of Road Infrastructures

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retaining walls are key geotechnical components of road infrastructure, whose seismic performance directly affects the resilience of transportation networks. Despite their importance, seismic fragility models for retaining walls available in the literature refer only to specific case studies.
Amendola C., Conti R., de Silva F.
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Rumble in the jungle: Convolutional neural networks demonstrate accurate footfall identification of terrestrial mammals

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Accurate and resource‐efficient wildlife survey methodologies are crucial to informing biodiversity, wildlife management and conservation planning. Large mammals are particularly challenging to survey due to their large spatial ranges and often‐elusive ...
Benjamin J. Blackledge, Patrick J. C. White   +1 more
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Complex Versus Parsimonious Site‐Based Stochastic Ground Motion Models: Which One Is Better?

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Stochastic ground motion models (GMMs) provide a probabilistic representation of seismic input and are increasingly important for uncertainty quantification (UQ) in earthquake engineering. This study focuses on site‐based stochastic GMMs, which learn the statistical features of selected datasets of seismic records and generate statistically ...
Maijia Su, Mayssa Dabaghi, Marco Broccardo   +2 more
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Time‐Variant Seismic Fragility of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers Considering Degradation Phenomena

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aging and environmental exposure progressively deteriorate the physical and mechanical properties of construction materials, thereby affecting the safety and functionality of existing infrastructure. Corrosion of steel rebars in reinforced concrete structures is widely acknowledged as the most common and detrimental degradation phenomenon, as ...
Paolo Andrea Miglietta, Gianni Blasi, Daniele Perrone, Francesco Micelli, Maria Antonietta Aiello   +4 more
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Influence of the Boundary Conditions on the Seismic Response of Existing Masonry Infills From In‐Plane and Dynamic Out‐of‐Plane Tests

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite increasing attention to the seismic performance of masonry infills, their out‐of‐plane dynamic behaviour remains insufficiently explored, particularly under pre‐existing in‐plane damage. This study presents a comprehensive experimental campaign designed to investigate the seismic behaviour of an existing weak masonry infill typology ...
Maithree Kurukulasuriya, Riccardo R. Milanesi, Guido Magenes, Paolo Morandi   +3 more
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One-dimensional physical reference models for the upper mantle and transition zone: combining seismic and mineral physics constraints [PDF]

One-dimensional seismic reference models are known to be a nonunique solution to global seismic data, hampering an interpretation in terms of physical structure. Here we test the compatibility of the simplest hypothesis of a mantle convecting as a whole,
Giardini, D., Deuss, A., Cammarano, F., Goes, S.   +3 more
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Directionality Scaling of Scalar and Vector Ground Motion Intensity Measures

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The azimuthal directionality of earthquake ground‐motion intensity measures (IMs) is conventionally described by the ratios between the orientation‐independent maximum (RotD100) and median (RotD50) values over the horizontal plane. This study presents a refined characterization of the directionality of 31 IMs, including spectral accelerations (
Mao‐Xin Wang, Gang Wang
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An Intensity Measure‐Based Methodology for Ground Motion Orientation in Seismic Structural Assessment

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In current dynamic time history assessment protocols, ground motion recordings are mostly oriented along fixed sensor directions. Consequently, the orientation of the principal resultant of rupture energy, which may control the maximum structural demand, remains undefined, precluding consistent correlation with physically detrimental ...
Santiago Londono‐Lopez, Raffaele Cucuzza, Fabrizio Mollaioli, Giuseppe Carlo Marano, Marco Domaneschi   +4 more
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Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Tectonic Tremors in the Collisional Orogen of Taiwan

Geophysical Research Letters
Taiwan offers a distinctive tectonic setting as a collisional orogen, ideal for studying tectonic tremors and the slow deformation process in the mountain‐building process.
Satoshi Ide, Kate Huihsuan Chen
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Development and Validation of a Seismic Design Method for Anchored Retaining Walls

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retaining walls with multiple anchor levels are widely used as permanent excavation support systems for the construction of linear infrastructures. Yet, their seismic behaviour remains largely unexplored, and current design approaches rely on conventional procedures that do not adequately reflect the actual dynamic response of these systems ...
Luigi Callisto, Chiara Molinaro, Davide Noè Gorini   +2 more
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