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Fragility Curves for Wide-Flange Steel Columns and Implications on Building-Specific Earthquake-Induced Loss Assessment
Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Subash Ghimire
Building-specific loss assessment methodologies utilize component fragility curves to compute the expected losses in the aftermath of earthquakes. Such curves are not available for steel columns assuming they remain elastic due to capacity design considera ...
2018Predicting the Change in Natural Period of Building due to Damage
The automation of the visual detection of structural elements and cracks have the potential in the future to greatly improve the post-earthquake safety evaluation of buildings in terms of time and accuracy. In addition, models could be combined with these ...
2018Improving the collapse risk of steel structures with high-performance steel
With the advent of material science, high-performance steel materials have been developed for seismic applications that potentially reduce the earthquake-induced collapse risk of steel frame buildings. The High Yield Point (HYP400) steel is one of those ma ...
2018EaRL: Toolbox for Earthquake Risk and Loss Assessment of Building Assets
Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Seong-Hoon Hwang
Infrastructure (asset) risk management is essential for a resilient environment. Several industries are concerned to improve their building asset preparedness subject to seismic hazard. To this end, the development of software tools that quantify and asses ...
2018Effective Stiffness and drift capacity of modern unreinforced masonry walls
Katrin Beyer, Bastian Valentin Wilding
Code design of unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings is based on elastic analysis, which requires as input parameter the effective stiffness and the ultimate drift capacity of the in-plane force-displacement response of URM walls. Eurocode 8, for example, e ...
2018Seismic displacement-demand and urban damage distribution: the impact of different methods on vulnerability assessment
Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Lorenzo Diana, Stefano Podesta
This paper addresses seismic vulnerability assessment at urban scale. Particularly, it focuses on the differences in damage distribution obtained from the application of several simplified methods for displacement demand determination. The results obtained ...
Singapore, Research Publishing2018Measurement-supported performance assessment of earthquake-damaged concrete and masonry structures
As demonstrated by recent events in Italy, New-Zealand, Haiti, and Nepal, earthquakes continue to pose threats to civil infrastructure, including buildings. For a long time seismic ultimate limit states have not been considered in design codes for regions ...
EPFL2017Proposed methodology for earthquake-induced loss assessment of instrumented steel frame buildings: building-specific and city-scale approaches
Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang
The performance-based earthquake engineering framework utilizes probabilistic seismic demand models to obtain accurate estimates of building engineering demand parameters. These parameters are utilized to estimate earthquake-induced losses in terms of prob ...
2017Effect of Modeling Assumptions on the Earthquake-Induced Losses and Collapse Risk of Steel-Frame Buildings with Special Concentrically Braced Frames
Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang
This paper quantifies the collapse risk and earthquake-induced economic losses of steel-frame buildings with special concentrically braced frames designed in urban California. A probabilistic building-specific loss estimation methodology that can explicitl ...
Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2017Earthquake-induced loss assessment of steel frame buildings with special moment frames designed in highly seismic regions
Dimitrios Lignos, Seong-Hoon Hwang
This paper discusses an analytical study that quantifies the expected earthquake-induced losses in typical office steel frame buildings designed with perimeter special moment frames in highly seismic regions. It is shown that for seismic events associated ...
Wiley-Blackwell2017