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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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Bikram Kesharee Patra, Rocio L. Segura and Ashutosh Bagchi
This study addresses the vital issue of the variability associated with modeling decisions in dam seismic analysis. Traditionally, structural modeling and simulations employ a progressive approach, where more complex models are gradually incorporated. Fo...
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Weijie Huang, Yuanmin Yang, Rui Pang and Mingyuan Jing
Studying the impact of mainshock?aftershock sequences on dam reliability is crucial for effective disaster prevention measures. With this purpose in mind, a new method for stochastic dynamic response analyses and reliability assessments of dams during se...
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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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Qingzhou Lv, Wanzeng Liu, Ran Li, Hui Yang, Yuan Tao and Mengjiao Wang
Earthquake disaster assessment is one of the most critical aspects in reducing earthquake disaster losses. However, traditional seismic intensity assessment methods are not effective in disaster-stricken areas with insufficient observation data. Social m...
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Irene Puncello and Silvia Caprili
The relevant losses determined by recent earthquakes stressed the vulnerability of historical masonry constructions towards horizontal seismic actions, therefore highlighting the need for reliable approaches for the structural assessment and following re...
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Ivan Duvnjak, Suzana Ereiz, Marina Francic Smrkic and Domagoj Damjanovic
The recent seismic activity in Croatia has inflicted significant damage upon numerous buildings, with masonry structures being particularly affected. Consequently, experimental investigations and structural condition assessments? have garnered increased ...
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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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Yves Reuland, Panagiotis Martakis and Eleni Chatzi
Rapid post-earthquake damage assessment forms a critical element of resilience, ensuring a prompt and functional recovery of the built environment. Monitoring-based approaches have the potential to significantly improve upon current visual inspection-bas...
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Qingteng Yuan, Ming Xiao, Ci Kong and Kaicheng Wang
The foundation of a seismic safety assessment of cross-fault hydraulic tunnels is an acceptable and accurate seismic response. A dynamic contact force algorithm that may take into consideration the interaction between the fault?surrounding rock?lining st...
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Baris Gunes
This study describes the seismic assessment of the Archangeloi (Basmelekler) Church in Kumyaka (Sige), Türkiye. The Archangeloi Church is an important religious monument that has survived to the present day from the eighth century. Through field surveys,...
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Nurullah Bektas and Orsolya Kegyes-Brassai
In order to prevent possible loss of life and property, existing building stocks need to be assessed before an impending earthquake. Beyond the examination of large building stocks, rapid evaluation methods are required because the evaluation of even one...
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Faris Tre?njo, Mustafa Humo, Filippo Casarin and Naida Ademovic
Minarets, tall structures, connected or not to the mosque attract attention due to their specific architectural features. Vulnerability to seismic damage has been witnessed throughout history on tall and slender structures after earthquake ground motions...
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Jishuai Wang, Yazhou Xie, Tong Guo and Zhenyu Du
Most regional seismic damage assessment (RSDA) methods are based on the rigid-base assumption to ensure evaluating efficiency, while these practices introduce factual errors due to neglecting the soil?structure interaction (SSI). Predicting the influence...
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Saroj Maharjan, Antoine Poujol, Christophe Martin, Gabriele Ameri, David Baumont, Kiana Hashemi, Yacine Benjelloun and Hussein Shible
Nepal is one of the most seismically active regions in the world, as highlighted by the recent devastating 2015, Mw~7.8 Gorkha earthquake, and a robust assessment of seismic hazard is paramount for the design of earthquake-resistant structures. In this s...
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Mislav Stepinac, Dominik Skokandic, Karlo O?ic, Margareta Zidar and Matija Vajdic
In 2020, Croatia was struck by two catastrophic earthquakes, resulting in more than 50,000 damaged structures. The majority of these are masonry buildings, but there are a number of reinforced concrete structures that suffered moderate to extensive damag...
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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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Wilson Wladimir Carofilis Gallo, Nicholas Clemett, Giammaria Gabbianelli, Gerard O?Reilly and Ricardo Monteiro
Modern society requires that structures exhibit greater levels of resilience, especially under earthquakes. The seismic resilience of buildings is thus gaining increased attention as a particular, beyond-code approach. Seismically retrofitted buildings b...
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Maria Giovanna Masciotta and Paulo B. Lourenço
The preservation and seismic risk mitigation of built cultural heritage is considered today as a major priority in the international political agenda. Among the great variety of heritage structures spread worldwide, masonry towers belong to one of the mo...
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?eljana Nikolic, Elena Benvenuti and Luka Runjic
The seismic risk assessment of existing urban areas provides important information for the process of seismic risk reduction in different phases of planning and emergency management. Between different large-scale assessment approaches, a vulnerability in...
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