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Building disaster-resilient communities and economies [PDF]
, 2014 Executive summary The need for building resilience Natural hazards have the potential to devastate communities and economies around the world. Natural hazards are inevitable, but not natural disasters.
United Nations Environment Programme
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BuildingsIn order to meet the demand for the seismic-resilience assessment of urban–rural building clusters, a new classification method is proposed by integrating national risk census results and evaluated using a large-scale dataset.
Hao Ren +5 more
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Final Setting Judgment and Safety Evaluation of Mass Concrete Based on Strain Monitoring
Applied Sciences, 2023 A judgment method of the final setting time of mass concrete based on strain monitoring and the selection criterion of the starting point of effective deformation are proposed, and the safety of the concrete structure is evaluated based on this. Firstly,
Jie Xu +3 more
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BuildingsTo evaluate the seismic resilience and post-earthquake sustainability of long-span deck-type reinforced concrete arch bridges, this paper constructs a seismic resilience assessment framework based on seismic vulnerability theory, utilizing post ...
Jiping Guo +5 more
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Study on Substation Seismic Resilience Evaluation Index and Resilience Matrix
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019 Abstract This paper proposes a seismic resilience grading method for 110Kv and above high-voltage substations, and establishes a quantitative index for evaluating the substation seismic resilience --- seismic resilience index, presents a calculation formula for substation seismic resilience index which takes the respective weight ...
Rushan Liu, Zhenxiu Hu, Rongxing Shu
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BuildingsLong-period ground motions (LPGMs), rich in low-frequency content, can resonate with long-period structures like high-rise buildings, leading to severe damage.
Bo Wang +3 more
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Seismic resilience of retrofitted reinforced concrete buildings [PDF]
, 2015 The fundamentals of the seismic resilience and evaluation method are presented. The evaluation is based on a non-dimensional analytical function for loss variation and a linear recovery function for a community in an average state of preparedness within ...
Mahini, S. S. +5 more
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An elastoplastic dynamic constitutive model for saturated soft clay based on bounding surface theory
Yantu gongcheng xuebao, 2021 The elastoplastic dynamic constitutive model plays an important role in the design of embankment or foundation under cyclic loading. The main challenge in the design of geotechnical engineering is to establish a dynamic constitutive model which is ...
FENG Shuang-xi 1, LEI Hua-yang 1, 2, 3
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Advanced Reinforcement Techniques for Seismic Resilience
, 2020 —The optimal design procedure of buckling restrained braces (BRBs) in reinforced concrete (RC) building structures can provide the distribution of horizontal stiffness of BRBs at each story, which minimizes story drift response of the structure under the constraint of specified total stiffness of BRBs.
A. K. Jafari, E. T. Nakamura
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Seismic resilience of hospitals
, 2015 Die Evaluation der seismischen Resilienz umfasst diverse Forschungsfelder und erfordert dementsprechend einen multidisziplinären Arbeitsansatz. Das Hauptaugenmerk der Forschung liegt aktuell auf Krankenhäusern, da diese eine strategische Rolle im Management des Post-Erdbeben Szenarios einnehmen.
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