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Kosmas E. Bantilas, Maria C. Naoum, Ioannis E. Kavvadias, Chris G. Karayannis and Anaxagoras Elenas
During intense ground motion excitations, the pounding between adjacent buildings may result in extensive structural damage. Despite the provision of regulations regarding the minimum separation gap required to prevent structural collisions, the majority...
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João Leite, Paulo B. Lourenço and Nuno Mendes
Several factors influence the behaviour of masonry infilled frames, which have been the subject of previous research with moderate success. The new generation of European design standards imposes the need to prevent the brittle collapse of infills and ma...
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Sara Touhami, Filippo Gatti, Fernando Lopez-Caballero, Régis Cottereau, Lúcio de Abreu Corrêa, Ludovic Aubry and Didier Clouteau
In this paper, we present SEM3D: a 3D high-fidelity numerical earthquake simulator that is tailored to predict the seismic wave field of complex earthquake scenarios from the fault to the epicenter site. SEM3D solves the wave-propagation problem by means...
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Giacomo Sevieri, Anna De Falco and Giovanni Marmo
The seismic risk assessment of existing concrete gravity dams is of primary importance for our society because of the fundamental role of these infrastructures in the sustainability of a country. The seismic risk assessment of dams is a challenging task ...
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Marco Lamperti Tornaghi, Arian Loli and Paolo Negro
The design of new buildings, and even more the rehabilitation of existing ones, needs to satisfy modern criteria in terms of energy efficiency and environmental performance, within the context of adequate safety requirements. Tackling all these needs at ...
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Marco Lamperti Tornaghi, Arian Loli and Paolo Negro
The design of new buildings, and even more the rehabilitation of existing ones, needs to satisfy modern criteria in terms of energy efficiency and environmental performance, within the context of adequate safety requirements. Tackling all these needs at ...
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Lau, D.T.,Vishnukanthan, K.,Waller, C.L.,Sivathayalan, S.
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The current practice of detailed seismic risk assessment cannot be easily applied to all the bridges in a large transportation networks due to limited resources. This paper presents a new approach for seismic risk assessment of large bridge inventories i...
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Takaji Kokusho
In earthquake engineering, acceleration has played a major role, while wave energy has rarely been considered as a demand in design. In order to understand earthquake damage mechanism in terms of energy, the demand in terms of wave energy in surface soil...
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Chengquan Wang, Zheng Qu, Yun Zou, Chongli Yin, Yanwei Zong and Zexuan Sun
In order to develop a new type of prefabricated bridge structure system with green, efficient and recoverable function, which complies with the new requirements of rapid repair of pier function after earthquake, and improves the applicable performance of...
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Donald J. Anderson, Kevin W. Franke, Robert E. Kayen, Shideh Dashti and Mahir Badanagki
Following the M7.0 strike-slip earthquake near Kumamoto, Japan, in April of 2016, most geotechnical engineering experts believed that there would be significant soil liquefaction and liquefaction-induced infrastructure damage observed in the densely popu...
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Fahriye Akar, Ercan Isik, Fatih Avcil, Aydin Büyüksaraç, Enes Arkan and Rabia Izol
On 6 February 2023, two independent earthquake pairs on the East Anatolian Fault Zone, with epicenters in Pazarcik (Mw = 7.7) and Elbistan (Mw = 7.6) districts of Kahramanmaras province, caused great destruction. Adiyaman and Gölbasi districts of this ci...
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Wenpeng Ning and Hua Tang
The southwestern region of China is close to the Eurasian earthquake zone. Many engineering areas in southwestern China are affected by earthquakes and are close to the epicenter of earthquakes that occur in this region. During earthquakes, slopes with w...
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Yu Huang and Xu Han
With the accelerated development of marine engineering, a growing number of marine structures are being constructed (e.g., seabed pipelines, drilling platforms, oil platforms, wind turbines). However, seismic field investigations over recent decades have...
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Sang Whan Han
When an earthquake occurs, it causes great damage to a large area. Although seismic engineering continues to develop, it is reported that recently occurred earthquakes inflicted major damage to various structures and loss of human lives. Such earthquake ...
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Florin Pavel and Robert Vladut
This paper is focused on the evaluation of the liquefaction hazard for different sites in Romania. To this aim, a database of 139 ground motions recorded during Vrancea intermediate-depth earthquakes having moment magnitudes MW = 6.0 is employed for the ...
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Wenyu Cao, Benbo Sun and Pengxiao Wang
Rapidly developed deep learning methods, widely used in various fields of civil engineering, have provided an efficient option to reduce the computational costs and improve the predictive capabilities. However, it should be acknowledged that the applicat...
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Yalin Zhu, Renyi Chen, Yixian Wang and Juxiang Chen
In order to further explore the influence of reinforcement materials laying position on the dynamic characteristics of reinforced retaining walls, based on FLAC3D finite difference methods for solving nonlinear problems, established with the same size of...
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Oscar Álvarez, Enrique Muñoz, Nelson Maureira-Carsalade and Ángel Roco-Videla
The most used global sensitivity analysis (GSA) method is based on variance. This is performed using Monte Carlo Sampling (MCS) or Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS). It requires a large sample to obtain accurate estimates. Density-based methods, such as the...
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Said M. Easa and Wai Yeung Yan
Traditional design approaches in civil engineering mainly focus on codes/guidelines related to building an infrastructure, while performance-based analysis (PBA), an emerging new reality around the world, focuses on the performance of the end product. Pr...
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Joshua Macabuag, Tiziana Rossetto, Ioanna Ioannou and Ian Eames
Catastrophe models quantify potential losses from disasters, and are used in the insurance, disaster-risk management, and engineering industries. Tsunami fragility and vulnerability curves are key components of catastrophe models, providing probabilistic...
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