Regional seismic risk and resilience assessment: Methodological development, applicability, and future research needs–An earthquake engineering perspective

A Du, X Wang, Y **e, Y Dong - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Given the devastating losses incurred by past major earthquake events together with the
ever-increasing global seismic exposures due to population growth and urbanization …

Parameterized deep reinforcement learning-enabled maintenance decision-support and life-cycle risk assessment for highway bridge portfolios

A Du, A Ghavidel - Structural Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged to be a promising alternative capable of
providing intelligent and proactive sequential decision-support for bridge asset …

Development of the compound intensity measure and seismic performance assessment for aqueduct structures considering fluid-structure interaction

M Du, S Zhang, C Wang, Z Li, J Yao, T Lu - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The primary motivation of this investigation is to develop the compound ground motion
intensity measure (IM) for the seismic performance assessment of aqueduct structures. To …

A probabilistic approach for performance-based assessment of highway bridges under post-earthquake induced landslides

Y Pang, R Meng, C Li, C Li - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The seismic vulnerability of reinforced concrete (RC) highway bridges in the vicinity of
landslides is usually evaluated without considering the impact of sliding mass flow-type. The …

Surrogate-assisted seismic performance assessment incorporating vine copula captured dependence

J Qian, Y Dong - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) is an advanced philosophy for the
design, assessment, and decision-making of structures under seismic hazards. Improving …

Metamodel-based state-dependent fragility modeling for Markovian sequential seismic damage assessment

A Du, J Cai, S Li - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate characterization of seismic damage accumulation is crucial to reliable seismic risk
assessment. Emerging research efforts have been devoted to state-dependent fragility …

Selection of hazard-consistent ground motions for risk-based analyses of structures

B Li, Z Cai, Z Duan - Structural Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In seismic risk analysis, probabilistic seismic demand analysis (PSDA) is required to
determine the probability distribution of structural seismic responses. One of the key steps in …

Evaluation of vector hazard for conditional mean spectrum with different definitions of multivariate exceedance rate

K Ji, W Wang, X Yu, Y Ren, R Wen - Journal of Earthquake …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The conditional mean spectrum (CMS) and its generalized forms, like the generalized CMS
(GCMS), and the CMS conditioned at the logarithm-average spectral acceleration over a …

Clustering and Selection of Hurricane Wind Records Using Autoencoder and -Means Algorithm

X Du, JF Hajjar, RB Bond, P Ren… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
In wind engineering, to accurately estimate the nonlinear dynamic response of structures
while considering uncertainties of hurricanes, a suite of wind records representing the …

Empirical correlations between ground motion intensity measures from the NGA‐West2 database and their use in vector generalized conditional intensity measures

X Wang, X Wang - Earthquake Engineering and Resilience, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the empirical correlations between 14 intensity measures (IMs)
describing the frequency content, amplitude, cumulative effects, and duration aspects of …