Abstract: The increased frequency and magnitude of natural and anthropogenic hazard events that affected infrastructure systems over the past two decades have highlighted the need for more effective risk management strategies. Such ...

Abstract: The increased demand for resilient infrastructure under accidental or deliberate explosions has resulted in the urgent need to quantify the performance of both existing and new building components under such extreme loading ...

Abstract: Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is essential for evaluating different options for blast risk management. However, depending on the risk management approach being considered, a rigorous blast PRA study can be quite ...

Abstract: With the introduction of the new American and Canadian standards for blast resistant design, there is a need to evaluate the response of different structural components under such extreme loads. This paper focuses on ...

Abstract: Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is essential for evaluating different options for blast risk management. However, depending on the risk management approach being considered, a rigorous blast PRA study can be quite ...

Abstract: The increased demand for resilient infrastructure under accidental or deliberate explosions has resulted in the urgent need to quantify the performance of both existing and new building components under such extreme loading ...

Abstract: Auxiliary batteries and battery rack systems are widely used as a risk mitigation strategy in several critical facilities to supply power following loss of external power from the grid. Although these systems might fail ...

Abstract: Reinforced masonry shear walls with boundary elements have been introduced recently as a seismic force–resisting system as alternative to traditional reinforced masonry shear walls with rectangular cross sections. The ...

Abstract: Although boundary elements have been known to enhance the in-plane performance of reinforced concrete block shear walls under seismic loading, research examining their influence on the walls’ out-of-plane performance ...