Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 3, August 2026.Fire sprinkler systems are critical for fire safety, but their functionality can be impaired by seismic damage. This study develops new seismic fragility functions for acceleration‐sensitive damage requiring monitoring, maintenance, and repair in code‐compliant fire sprinkler piping systems, using experimental data from full‐scale experimental tests ...
Jitendra Bhatta +2 more
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Empirical Bayes Covariance Decomposition, and a Solution to the Multiple Tuning Problem in Sparse PCA. [PDF]
J Comput Graph StatKang J, Stephens M.
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Quantification of Direct Benefits of Functional Recovery‐Based Design for Seismic Resilience
Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 3, August 2026.Lessons from recent major earthquakes have shown that current life‐safety‐centered seismic design practice falls short in ensuring a desirable post‐hazard recovery. Extensive economic losses, high demolition rates, and long recovery have signified a gap between design targets and society's expectations of seismic performance of code‐compliant buildings.
Kasra Habibi +3 more
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Design optimization and performance evaluation of semi-prefabricated UHPC-RC metro station structures. [PDF]
Sci RepLei G, Hua F, Yang Z, Jiang F, Zhu J.
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From Observed Damage to Executable Repair Quantities: The RELA Repair Module
Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 3, August 2026.Postearthquake workflows currently support three distinct classes of decisions: safety clearance through rapid tagging, portfolio‐level economic damage estimation through probabilistic loss models, and field inspections based on locally defined survey forms, which may subsequently trigger project‐specific strengthening through retrofit design. However,
Zoran Stojadinović +6 more
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Assessment of Seismic Performance and Structural Health Monitoring of a Retrofitted Reinforced Concrete Structure with Polyurethane-Based Interventions and Vertical Greenery Systems. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Rousakis T +13 more
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Enabling Under Ice Glider Operations: A Backseat Driver Approach
Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 3292-3311, August 2026.ABSTRACT Polar Oceans are key locations for forcing global ocean circulation, influencing both global climate and biogeochemical cycles. Due to restricted access to these seasonally and perennially ice‐covered regions, these areas are severely undersampled.
Yaomei Wang +12 more
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Load-bearing mechanism and engineering application of a heavy-duty transfer steel platform supported by basement columns. [PDF]
PLoS OneShang M, Li X.
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steel research international, Volume 97, Issue 8, Page 4193-4206, August 2026.This work illustrates how substituting natural gas with hydrogen as fuel in the reheating furnace will influence the oxide scale formation on the steel surface. Thermogravimetric analysis and characterization techniques are used to investigate oxidation behavior and the formation of oxide phases.
Francis Gyakwaa +4 more
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Experimental investigation on seismic behaviour of slab-column connections
, 2014 Code design of slab-column connections to resist seismically induced drifts is currently based on empirical relationships for both moment and deformation capacity. The results of tests on slabcolumn connections are however sensitive to the conception of the test setup.
Drakatos Ioannis-Sokratis +2 more
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