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Seismic vulnerability assessment of motorway bridges
, 2010 The paper presents a general Seismic Vulnerability Benchmark System (SVBS) for bridges, developed within the framework of the research project »Seismic vulnerability assessment of bridges in Germany« funded by the German Federal Highway Research Institute. For each bridge type, a three-level vulnerability assessment procedure is provided and the system
Meskouris, K., Renault, P.
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An SSI‐Informed Design for Tuned Mass Dampers With Small‐to‐Large Mass Ratios
Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) are used to mitigate structural vibrations induced by seismic or wind excitation, by tuning the device to the system's dominant resonant frequencies. However, the TMD effectiveness can be undermined by soil‐structure interaction, which can lead to elongation of the vibration periods and to combined translational ...
Davide Noè Gorini +3 more
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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Masonry and RC Building Stocks: A Simplified Methodology
BuildingsAssessing the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings at the territorial scale is a crucial aspect for seismic-prone regions to properly plan effective strategies for disaster risk management.
Francesca Ferretti +2 more
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An efficient methodology to estimate probabilistic seismic damage curves [PDF]
, 2019 The incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) is a powerful methodology that can be easily extended for calculating probabilistic seismic damage curves. These curves are metadata to assess the seismic risk of structures.
Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro +3 more
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Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Multi‐supported non‐structural components (NSCs) are prone to seismic damage, yet their response prediction remains challenging when support motions are spatially incoherent. This study proposes an enhanced quasi‐static condensation (EQSC) method for linear, lightweight, dynamically detuned multi‐supported NSCs under the neglect of primary ...
Duozhi Wang +5 more
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Modeling and vulnerability of historical city centers in seismic areas : a case study in Lisbon [PDF]
, 2004 Historical city buildings are an integral part of the built heritage to be preserved, and their safety is a primary requirement in seismic areas.
Lourenço, Paulo B., Ramos, Luís F.
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Nonlinear Static Procedure for Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Bridges
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2007 The impact of an earthquake event on the performance of a highway transportation network depends on the extent of damage sustained by its individual components, particularly bridges. Seismic damageability of bridges expressed in the form of fragility curves can easily be incorporated into the scheme of risk analysis of a highway network under the ...
S. Banerjee, Masanobu Shinozuka
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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Skewed Reinforced Concrete Bridges
, 2021 Skewed bridges are commonly used in highway interchanges where the straight (unskewed) bridges are not suitable. There have been several observations of heavy damage of bridges that have geometric irregularities, especially significant skewness. Such damage severely disrupts transportation systems, leading to substantial economic consequences.
Lee, Young, Moon, Do-Soo, Ghanem, Amr
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Seismic Meta‐Fragility Functions
Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fragility functions make for one of the three key components of probabilistic seismic risk analysis, along with hazard and consequence and/or exposure models. They are, in principle, construction‐specific; however, risk analysis is more often performed on a larger (e.g., regional) scale. In this case, so‐called typological fragility curves are
Iunio Iervolino, Georgios Baltzopoulos
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Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.This paper introduces a novel resilience‐based reward‐penalty scheme (RPS) for electricity grids facing high‐impact, low‐probability (HILP) disasters. By modeling the costs of proactive asset immunization against reactive RPS penalties, our analysis conclusively demonstrates that long‐term investment in grid resilience is the more economically rational
Amirhossein Yousefi Joobeni, Reza Dashti
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