Abstract: Notwithstanding powerful computational simulation methodologies available today, there remain significant challenges: the plane-section assumption of popular fiber models, the scale limitations of sophisticated microscopic ...

Abstract: Demand surge is a process resulting in a higher cost to repair building damage after large disasters than to repair the same damage after a small disaster; this higher cost can be an additional 20% or more. It is of interest ...

Abstract: The focus of this paper is to demonstrate the application of a recently developed Bayesian state estimation method to the recorded seismic response of a building and to discuss the issue of model selection. The method, ...

Abstract: This study proposes the capacity cumulative absolute velocity (CAVc) as a novel measure for the resistance of granular soils to earthquake-induced liquefaction. The CAVc is defined as the cumulative absolute velocity (CAV) ...