For a city to perform successfully, and its citizens to feel safe and comfortable, the health of
basic urban components and the overall resilience of the urban system is crucial. As the …

Bridges constitute key elements of the nation's infrastructure and are subjected to
considerable threats from natural hazards including seismic events. A range of potential …

Natural and anthropogenic hazards pose significant risks to individuals and communities.
Over the past few decades, risk and reliability analysis have gone from a specialty topic to a …

The seismic performance of existing buildings can be improved significantly through the
installation of various retrofit technologies. Decision support systems can be used for the …

The high-rise buildings designed with a long lifetime may be exposed to one or more
extreme hazards. Traditionally, specifications separately treated the multiple extreme …

The state of engineering systems changes in time due to the effect of gradual (eg corrosion,
fatigue) and shock deterioration (eg earthquakes, floods, and tornados). At specified …

In this paper, an integrated approach for a holistic (involving notions of resiliency and
sustainability) building design is presented to select the optimal design alternative based on …

Bridges are the most vulnerable elements in transport systems, and they may undergo
structural problems due to environmental conditions and natural disasters. Governmental …

In the life-cycle cost analysis of a structure, the total cost of damage caused by external
hazards like earthquakes, wind storms and flood is an important but highly uncertain …

This paper addresses an alternative methodology to calculate fragility functions that
considers multiple limit states parameters, such as combinations of response variables of …