Abstract: Aftershocks occur following an earthquake of large magnitude (referred to as the mainshock) and cause further damage to buildings that may have sustained damage in the mainshock. In this paper, an object-oriented framework ...

Abstract: The Bernoulli pulse process has been used in the past for modeling snow loads. However, it is not an appropriate model for heavy snow-load areas as the snow accumulation cannot be simulated, which may lead to an underconservative ...