CrackEmbed: Point feature embedding for crack segmentation from disaster site point clouds with anomaly detection

J Chen, YK Cho - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Laser-scanned point clouds can be used to represent the 3D as-damaged condition of
building structures in a post-disaster scenario. Performing crack detection from the acquired …

An application of finite element model updating for damage assessment of a two-story reinforced concrete building and comparison with lidar

M Song, S Yousefianmoghadam… - Structural Health …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates the performance of finite element model updating to identify the
induced damage in a two-story reinforced concrete masonry-infilled building using vibration …

Seismic safety of informally constructed reinforced concrete houses in Puerto Rico

PB Murray, D Feliciano, BH Goldwyn… - Earthquake …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
More than 1.6 billion people worldwide live in informally constructed houses, many of which
are reinforced with concrete. Patterns of past earthquake damage suggest that these homes …

Post-earthquake damage identification of an RC school building in Nepal using ambient vibration and point cloud data

MM Akhlaghi, S Bose, ME Mohammadi, B Moaveni… - Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a damage identification and performance assessment study of a four-
story masonry-infilled reinforced concrete building in Sankhu, Nepal, using ambient …

Non-temporal point cloud analysis for surface damage in civil structures

ME Mohammadi, RL Wood, CE Wittich - ISPRS International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Assessment and evaluation of damage in civil infrastructure is most often conducted visually,
despite its subjectivity and qualitative nature in locating and verifying damaged areas. This …

Multi-scale remote sensing of tornado effects

JA Womble, RL Wood, ME Mohammadi - Frontiers in built …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
To achieve risk-based engineered structural designs that provide safety for life and property
from tornadoes, sufficient knowledge of tornado wind speeds and wind flow characteristics is …

Seismic assessment of a school building in Nepal and analysis of retrofitting solutions

H Rodrigues, A Furtado, N Vila-Pouca, H Varum… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Recent earthquakes highlighted the vulnerability of some infilled reinforced concrete
structures due to the presence and distribution of the infill masonry walls. Buildings such as …

A seismic fragility model accounting for torsional irregularity in low‐rise non‐ductile RC moment‐resisting frames

R Bhasker, A Menon - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Buildings characterized by torsional irregularity are notorious for their vulnerability to
earthquakes. However, most fragility/vulnerability models used for regional seismic risk …

A computationally efficient framework for the simulation of the nonlinear seismic performance of infilled RC frame buildings

S Bose, A Stavridis - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
This study proposes a novel approach for the computationally efficient numerical modeling
of the nonlinear seismic response of entire buildings with infilled RC frames. The proposed …

Nonlinear dynamic tests of a reinforced concrete frame building at different damage levels

S Yousefianmoghadam, M Song… - Earthquake …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper discusses the dynamic tests of a two‐story infilled reinforced concrete (RC) frame
building using an eccentric‐mass shaker. The building, located in El Centro, CA, was …