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Farahnaz Soleimani and Donya Hajializadeh
Optimizing the serviceability of highway bridges is a fundamental prerequisite to provide proper infrastructure safety and emergency responses after natural hazards such as an earthquake. In this regard, fragility and resilience assessment have emerged a...
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Vishnupriya Jonnalagadda, Ji Yun Lee, Jie Zhao and Seyed Hooman Ghasemi
The nation?s transportation systems are complex and are some of the highest valued and largest public assets in the United States. As a result of repeated natural hazards and their significant impact on transportation functionality and the socioeconomic ...
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Mohammadreza Mohammadi, Araliya Mosleh, Mehran S. Razzaghi, Pedro Alves Costa and Rui Calçada
The purpose of this research is to study the seismic performance of railway embankments through a probabilistic approach. Nonlinear response history analyses were conducted utilizing PLAXIS software. Three categories of railway embankments were selected ...
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Alon Urlainis and Igal M. Shohet
Fragility curves are a common tool to appraise the expected damage to critical infrastructure (CI) after an earthquake event. Previous studies offer fragility curve parameters for CI that are suitable for a vast range of systems, without an in-depth exam...
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Zhongkai Huang
The present work aims to introduce an integrated framework for the resilience evaluation of shallow circular tunnels subjected to earthquakes using fragility and restoration functions. A typical shallow circular tunnel in Shanghai city of China is examin...
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Sangki Park and Kichul Jung
Seismic activities are serious disasters that induce natural hazards resulting in an incalculable amount of damage to properties and millions of deaths. Typically, seismic risk assessment can be performed by means of structural damage information compute...
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Ngoc Hieu Dinh, Joo-Young Kim, Seung-Jae Lee and Kyoung-Kyu Choi
In the present study, the seismic vulnerability of a hybrid mold transformer was investigated using a dynamic analytical approach incorporating the experimental results of shaking table tests. The analytical model consisted of linear springs and plastic ...
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Antonio Sandoli, Gian Piero Lignola, Andrea Prota and Giovanni Fabbrocino
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Junjun Guo, Yitong Gu, Weihong Wu, Shihyu Chu and Xinzhi Dang
Current studies lack probabilistic evaluations on the performance of fault-crossing bridges. This paper conducts seismic fragility analyses to evaluate the fragility of cable-stayed bridges with the effects of fault ruptures. Synthetic across-fault groun...
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Quang Huy Tran, Jungwon Huh, Nhu Son Doan, Van Ha Mac and Jin-Hee Ahn
While the container crane is an important part of daily port operations, it has received little attention in comparison with other infrastructures such as buildings and bridges. Crane collapses owing to earthquakes affect the operation of the port and in...
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Lau, D.T.,Vishnukanthan, K.,Waller, C.L.,Sivathayalan, S.
Pág. 127 - 138
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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Samar Momin, Holger Lovon, Vitor Silva, Tiago Miguel Ferreira and Romeu Vicente
Adobe construction represents 5.3% of the total Portuguese building stock according to the latest National Housing Census. The distribution of these adobe buildings is scattered across the country, with higher density in the central region and in Algarve...
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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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Marie-José Nollet, Ahmad Abo El Ezz, Oliver Surprenant, Alex Smirnoff and Miroslav Nastev
An integrated web application, referred to as ER2 for rapid risk evaluator, is under development for a user-friendly seismic risk assessment by the non-expert public safety community. The assessment of likely negative consequences is based on pre-populat...
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K. Pitilakis, S. Argyroudis, K. Kakderi, J. Selva
Pág. 1335 - 1344
Transportation infrastructures are complex systems of various connected components like bridges, roads, tunnels, embankments, retaining walls in case of a highway system or wharfs, cranes, buildings, utility systems in case of port facilities. Due to the...
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Dario Rosidi
Pág. pp. 57 - 63
A seismic risk assessment procedure for earth embankments and levees is presented. The procedure consists of three major elements: (1) probability of ground motion at the site, (2) probability of levee failure given a level of ground motion has occurred ...
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Marie-José Nollet, Ahmad Abo El Ezz, Oliver Surprenant, Alex Smirnoff and Miroslav Nastev
An integrated web application, referred to as ER2 for rapid risk evaluator, is under development for a user-friendly seismic risk assessment by the non-expert public safety community. The assessment of likely negative consequences is based on pre-populat...
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Tharindu Malinga Abeysiriwardena, Kushan Kalmith Wijesundara and Roberto Nascimbene
The assessment of seismic risk for critical and strategic structures like schools and hospitals remains crucial, even in regions with low seismic activity. Presently, operational school buildings in Sri Lanka are primarily designed to handle gravitationa...
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Maria Rota, Martino Zito, Paolo Dubini and Roberto Nascimbene
Monitoring of non-structural elements is not usually implemented, despite the seismic vulnerability of these components and the significant cost associated with their replacement in case of damage. By exploiting the limited cost of commercial sensors, ac...
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Luis A. Pinzón, Luis G. Pujades, Irving Medranda and Rodrigo E. Alva
In this work, the directionality effects during the MW 7.8 earthquake, which occurred in Muisne (Ecuador) on 16 April 2016, were analyzed under two perspectives. The first one deals with the influence of these effects on seismic intensity measures (IMs),...
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