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 …

A neural network-based multivariate seismic classifier for simultaneous post-earthquake fragility estimation and damage classification

X Yuan, G Chen, P Jiao, L Li, J Han, H Zhang - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
A scalar intensity measure (IM) could be insufficient to represent the earthquake intensity
and variety in fragility estimation. Introducing multiple IMs to conventional regression of …

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 …

Automating building damage reconnaissance to optimize drone mission planning for disaster response

D Hu, S Li, J Du, J Cai - Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
Rapid reconnaissance of building damage is critical for disaster response and recovery.
Drones have been utilized to collect aerial images of affected areas in order to assess …

The impact of the choice of intensity measure and seismic demand model on seismic risk estimates with respect to an unconditional benchmark

A Rudman, E Tubaldi, J Douglas… - … & Structural Dynamics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many methods for seismic risk assessment rely on the selection of a seismic intensity
measure (IM) and the development of models of the seismic demand conditional on the IM …

Faster post-earthquake damage assessment based on 1D convolutional neural networks

X Yuan, D Tanksley, L Li, H Zhang, G Chen… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Contemporary deep learning approaches for post-earthquake damage assessments based
on 2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require encoding of ground motion records to …

Encoding time-series ground motions as images for convolutional neural networks-based seismic damage evaluation

X Yuan, D Tanksley, P Jiao, L Li, G Chen… - Frontiers in Built …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Traditional methods for seismic damage evaluation require manual extractions of intensity
measures (IMs) to properly represent the record-to-record variation of ground motions …

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 …

Multivariate return period‐based ground motion selection for improved hazard consistency over a vector of intensity measures

A Du, JE Padgett - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ground motion selection is a crucial step in probabilistic seismic performance assessment of
structural systems. Particularly, identifying ground motion records compatible with a specific …

Entropy‐based intensity measure selection for site‐specific probabilistic seismic risk assessment

A Du, JE Padgett - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Intensity measure (IM) selection is a critical step in probabilistic seismic risk assessment
(PSRA). In many past studies, the efficiency of an IM, which quantifies its explanatory power …