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Hassan Soltanmohammadi, Mohammadreza Mashayekhi, Mohammad Mahdi Memarpour, Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni and Masoud Mirtaheri
Investigating the impact of near-field ground motions on the fragility curves of multi-span simply supported concrete girder bridges is the main goal of this paper. Fragility curves are valuable tools for evaluating seismic risks and vulnerabilities of b...
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Luigi Sorrentino and Linda Giresini
This paper presents a safety tool to assess the risk of road blockage during and after emergency situations, mainly due to earthquakes. This method can be used by public authorities to calculate the risk of road paths prone to blockage in case of seismic...
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Esmaeil Mohammadi Dehcheshmeh, Parya Rashed, Vahid Broujerdian, Ayoub Shakouri and Farhad Aslani
This paper summarizes a study focused on evaluating the post-fire performance of steel Intermediate Moment Frames (IMFs) following earthquakes. To this aim, archetypes comprising 3-bay IMFs with three different heights were seismically designed, and thei...
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Juan Patricio Chicaiza-Fuentes and Ana Gabriela Haro-Baez
This study presents the performance-based seismic assessment of low-rise reinforced concrete archetype buildings, considering repair costs for ordinary moment-resistant frames (OMF) and dual systems consisting of OMF plus special shear walls (SSW). Histo...
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Maria Rota, Martino Zito, Paolo Dubini and Roberto Nascimbene
Monitoring of non-structural elements is not usually implemented, despite the seismic vulnerability of these components and the significant cost associated with their replacement in case of damage. By exploiting the limited cost of commercial sensors, ac...
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Mohammadreza Mohammadi, Araliya Mosleh, Mehran S. Razzaghi, Pedro Alves Costa and Rui Calçada
The purpose of this research is to study the seismic performance of railway embankments through a probabilistic approach. Nonlinear response history analyses were conducted utilizing PLAXIS software. Three categories of railway embankments were selected ...
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Alessandro Pucci, Daniel Eickmeier, Hélder S. Sousa, Linda Giresini, José C. Matos and Ralph Holst
The existing literature on bridge fragility curves for floods mainly uses analytical approaches. However, it is crucial to validate these models and to identify failure trends and patterns to detect vulnerabilities. Therefore, fragility curves obtained u...
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Jessica Rodwell, James H. Williams and Ryan Paulik
Despite the importance of critical infrastructure for the effective functioning of communities, their vulnerability to tsunamis remains unstudied. This study addresses this issue by developing empirical fragility curves for infrastructure components curr...
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Sung-Eun Cho
The maintenance of water-retaining structures involves evaluating their performance against current and future operating water levels. Fragility curves are commonly used for this purpose, as they indicate the conditional probability of failure for variou...
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Zhen-Zhen Nong, Qing Wang, He-Ying Hou, Peng-Ming Jiang and Ai-Zhao Zhou
Calcareous sand, a type of marine sediment formed from the skeletal remains of marine life, exhibits unique characteristics such as high porosity and fragility due to its biological origin. Particle breakage is a key attribute of calcareous sand. Given t...
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