Abstract: A multicriteria and multilevel seismic risk management framework is presented to ensure an acceptable and consistent level of risk for existing buildings in Canada with a focus on minimizing threats to life safety. The ...

Abstract: This study presents a novel approach to investigate the impacts of temperature rise in a changing climate on the design-service life of reinforced concrete bridge decks in diverse regions across Canada. Most studies in the ...

Abstract: Modern structural design codes assume a statistically stationary climate. However, it is now known that the climate is changing at a rate that calls into question the stationarity assumption. This study was undertaken to ...

Abstract: Most building codes have assumed stationary historical climatic data that can be statistically extrapolated to the future. However, nonstationarity has been shown in projections of future climatic data relevant to the ...