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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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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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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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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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Yang Hu, Wen Bai, Junwu Dai and Qingwen Li
Thermal power plants play a crucial role in the power system as critical lifeline infrastructure. In order to meet the production process requirements, the main building of a thermal power plant is often connected to a coal conveyor trestle. This study f...
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Wenhao Pan, Yi Zhu, Chuanhao Zhao and Jingzhong Tong
Optimal design of the crossbeam is essential for the economical design of bridge towers as the crossbeam could considerably enhance the lateral stiffnesses of these towers by providing a special bracing for the tower columns. By using a reliability-based...
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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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Carlotta Pia Contiguglia, Angelo Pelle, Bruno Briseghella and Camillo Nuti
Well-known methods for seismic performance assessment, such as incremental dynamic analysis (IDA), multi-stripes analysis (MSA) and the cloud method, involve nonlinear response time-history analyses to characterize the relationship between the chosen dam...
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Matthew S. Janssen and Jon K. Miller
Breaching or overtopping of coastal dunes is associated with greater upland damages. Reliable tools are needed to efficiently assess the likelihood of dune erosion during storm events. Existing methods rely on numerical modeling (extensive investment) or...
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Julia Kohns, Lothar Stempniewski and Alexander Stark
For seismic risk analysis, reliable predictions and estimations of earthquake damage and seismic behaviour of buildings are essential. A common method is the use of fragility curves. In this paper, fragility functions are developed based on various numer...
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