Abstract: Our built environment is often subjected to multiple (natural) hazards’ concurrent and/or sequential impacts. Modeling multihazard interactions (i.e., possible interrelationships between hazard events with their ...

Abstract: Current seismic evaluation and retrofit guidelines and standards, such as the ASCE standard ASCE/SEI 41-23, Seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings (ASCE 41), provide recommendations for nonlinear modeling ...

Abstract: Recent analytical studies have highlighted the existence of a failure-mode transition zone within which nominally identical test specimens may experience variability in failure mode between a flexure-dominated and a ...