Abstract: As inelastic design for wind is embraced by the engineering community, there is an increasing demand for computational tools that enable the investigation of the nonlinear behavior of wind-excited structures and subsequent ...

Abstract: Modern tall buildings are characterized by their slenderness and sensitivity to resonant wind effects. This is especially true considering the acceleration-based motion perception criteria under which they must be designed. ...

Abstract: The adoption of performance-based wind engineering (PBWE) is rapidly becoming recognized as a fundamental step to reducing the huge economic losses caused by severe windstorms. This has led to the recent introduction of a ...

Abstract: The ever-growing reliance on probabilistic performance-based frameworks in assessing and designing structural systems is creating a need for efficient tools for propagating uncertainty through general nonlinear and dynamic ...

Abstract: Modern performance evaluation and design procedures for structural systems against severe natural hazards generally require the propagation of uncertainty through the repeated evaluation of high-dimensional nonlinear dynamic ...

Abstract: Performance-based engineering for natural hazards facilitates the design and appraisal of structures with rigorous evaluation of their uncertain structural behavior under potentially extreme stochastic loads expressed in ...

Abstract: Database-enabled design (DED) frameworks offer convenient meshing of wind-tunnel driven databases with state-of-the-art analysis methodologies for the design of low-rise to high-rise buildings. These procedures can serve ...

Abstract: A method is proposed for generating samples of irregular masonry walls that capture the essential statistics of a given population. The method first entails characterizing the geometry of scaled star-like inclusions by ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a framework for the performance-based design (PBD) of high-rise buildings with respect to the occupant comfort performance objective. The performance is expressed in terms of the probability—conditional ...

Abstract: Modeling the various aspects of a disaster scenario and the interactions that occur between them is necessary to create a meaningful and high-fidelity simulation of the event. Using a publish-subscribe pattern for data ...