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Juan Patricio Chicaiza-Fuentes and Ana Gabriela Haro-Baez
This study presents the performance-based seismic assessment of low-rise reinforced concrete archetype buildings, considering repair costs for ordinary moment-resistant frames (OMF) and dual systems consisting of OMF plus special shear walls (SSW). Histo...
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Wenhao Pan, Yi Zhu, Chuanhao Zhao and Jingzhong Tong
Optimal design of the crossbeam is essential for the economical design of bridge towers as the crossbeam could considerably enhance the lateral stiffnesses of these towers by providing a special bracing for the tower columns. By using a reliability-based...
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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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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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Kentaro Imai, Takashi Hashimoto, Yuta Mitobe, Tatsuo Masuta, Narumi Takahashi and Ryoko Obayashi
Tsunami-related fires may occur in the inundation area during a huge tsunami disaster, and woody debris produced by the tsunami can cause the fires to spread. To establish a practical method for evaluating tsunami-related fire predictions, we previously ...
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Chenglong Gong, Yixin Su and Danhong Zhang
In this paper, a variable gain prescribed performance control law is proposed for dynamic positioning (DP) of ships with positioning error constraints, input saturation and unknown external disturbances. The error performance index functions are designed...
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Alon Urlainis and Igal M. Shohet
Recent earthquake events have highlighted the importance of critical infrastructure (CI) resilience, as a strong correlation was found between economic loss and severity of CI damage. CIs are characterized by a complex structure composed of sub-component...
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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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Cao Wang
The historical vehicles passed through an existing bridge can be regarded as proof-loading tests for the bridge, and, as a result, are evident of the bridge?s performance. Such service history information has been utilized to update the estimate of bridg...
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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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