Sustainability practices in a working environment represent superior quality performances,
while risks remain to be a challenge. Our study's primary purpose is to deploy the …

Given the devastating losses incurred by past major earthquake events together with the
ever-increasing global seismic exposures due to population growth and urbanization …

The exposure of critical infrastructure to natural and human-induced hazards has severe
consequences on world economies and societies. Therefore, resilience assessment of …

Risk assessment and mitigation programs have been carried out over the last decades in
the attempt to reduce transportation infrastructure downtime and post-disaster recovery …

Vulnerability is a fundamental component of risk and its understanding is important for
characterising the reliability of infrastructure assets and systems and for mitigating risks. The …

Resilience curves are used to communicate quantitative and qualitative aspects of system
behavior and resilience to stakeholders of critical infrastructure. Generally, these curves …

Building resilient bridges, that are able to withstand multiple natural stressors with minimal
damage and quickly restore their functionality is paramount to delivering climate-resilient …

Transportation infrastructure plays an important role in supporting the national economy and
social well-being. Extreme events have caused terrible physical damages to the …

After recent large earthquakes, field investigations confirmed that several bridges were
severely damaged and collapsed not only due to the earthquake, as an independent …

In performance-based earthquake engineering framework, seismic fragility functions play a
fundamental role for quantifying the seismic resilience. There are three main approaches for …