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Time-dependent resilience as a generalization of time-dependent reliability
(2023)Civil structures and infrastructures are often subjected by design to the impacts of natural and human-caused hazardous events, and accordingly may suffer from damages, functionality loss, and failure. In order to ... -
Time-Varying Statistics of Oscillators Endowed with Fractional Derivative Elements
(2023)An approximate technique is presented for determining the statistics of the response envelope of lightly-damped nonlinear oscillators endowed with fractional derivative elements. Specifically, via the stochastic averaging ... -
Towards improved code-based performance objectives for liquefaction hazard analysis
(2023)Ground failure due to liquefaction in loose sand deposits poses substantial risks to the built environment, and has caused significant damage in past earthquakes to a wide range of infrastructure. Advances in liquefaction ... -
Towards the assessment and risk classification of existing building typologies using storey-loss functions
(2023)Loss assessment due to earthquake events is becoming a common instrument in the seismic performance assessment of existing structures. For this purpose, different approaches exist with varying degrees of complexity and ... -
Typhoon Risk Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms
(2023)Motivation of the research Recently in Japan, offshore wind power generation has drawn attention in realizing decarbonized society, followed by the many projects of the offshore wind power generation are promoted throughout ... -
Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for probabilistic, global modelling of future tropical cyclone risk
(2023)Modelling the risk of natural hazards for society, ecosystems, and the economy is subject to strong uncertainties, even more so in the context of a changing climate, growing economies, evolving societies, and declining ... -
Uncertainty in Bridge Mode Shapes Based on Accelerometer Location
(2023)In Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), modal analysis of a bridge structure is commonly used to aid in understanding the vibration characteristics of the structure under various loading conditions. These modal analyses are ... -
Uncertainty quantification and guidance on the use of wind tunnel-informed stochastic wind load models for application in performance-based wind engineering
(2023)Probabilistic performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) is a state-of-the-art framework that allows for direct uncertainty propagation through the hazard, aerodynamic, structural response, damage, and loss models in assessing ... -
Uncertainty Quantification of Buckling Loads of Thin and Slender Structures Applying Linear and Nonlinear Analysis
(2023)The evaluation of the buckling load is a crucial issue when designing different types of structures. It is well known that buckling loads of structures are highly sensitive to random deviations from a nominal design, which ... -
Uncertainty Quantification of Semi Destructive Testing for chloride content assessment for a concrete bridge in maritime environment
(2023)Harbors play a major socio-economic role in almost all littoral countries with more than 80% of trade exchange and play also usually a key role for military defense. Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures in harbors are ... -
Uncertainty-aware surrogates for early stage design prototyping
(2023)Surrogate modelling is a powerful tool that can help to solve both inverse problems as well as acting as a tool for early stage rapid prototyping. It is possible to create surrogate models and visualisation environments ... -
Understanding the impacts of government spending on retrofits and buyouts to mitigate regional and homeowner impacts from hurricanes
(2023)Hurricanes cost lives, damage and destroy property, and devastate communities. Pairing mitigation tools with insurance improves resilience by reducing structural losses and speeding recovery. This study applies a computational ... -
Unified framework of stochastic structural dynamics: direct probability integral method
(2023)Stochastic dynamics of structures involves the topics of simulation of random excitation, random vibration analysis, reliability estimation and reliability-based design optimization. However, the existing methods only focus ... -
Use of Traffic Data in Bridge Assessment an IABSE Initiative
(2023)The bridge community is committed into creating safe and sustainable structures for future generations. During the drafting work of bridge design standards many compromises are needed to achieve a consensus, and the resulting ... -
Using Real-Time Spatial Delphi to locate Loading bays and Parcel Lockers
(2023)Urban logistics has become part of the citizensメ life, who often use e-commerce options to buy goods and groceries. The constant increase of this phenomenon which has been witnessed in recent years led to a consequent ... -
Validating the current state-of-practice for seismic risk (and resilience) analysis
(2023)Regional risk analysis provides information for decisions made by communities, state and federal agencies, and the insurance industry. Model validation and updating are crucial since inaccurate predictions may lead to ... -
Value of more accurate urban weather prediction in the day-ahead energy market
(2023)Urban heat significantly influences human comfort and leads to additional energy use for space-cooling in built environments. The building sector has a high potential for cost savings and emission reduction by improving ... -
Volume effects in glued laminated timber beams
(2023)This paper discusses several aspects related to volume effects on glued laminated timber (GLT) beams, with focus on the combined effects of height and length on the bending strength. Challenges related to the prediction ... -
Vulnerabilities in Water Distribution Systems Using N-k Contingency Analysis
(2023)Adequate performance of water distribution systems is at the core of community resilience. Water distribution systems are vulnerable to a variety of hazards, as they are susceptible to direct physical damage (e.g., ... -
Vulnerability Assessment of Infrastructure Networks Following Earthquakes: The Fundamental Step to Assess Network Resilience and Functional Recovery
(2023)Disruptive events can result in devastating damage and interruptions in distributed infrastructure networks (e.g., Transportation network), affecting the lives and wellbeing of communities that rely on their functionality. ...