Rapid population growth and economic development in urban areas have greatly increased
the potential of exposure to multiple hazards that may cause damage and business …

The aleatory and epistemic uncertainties coming from various sources have significant
impacts on the accuracy of risk estimates for structures under dynamic excitations. This …

It is widely recognized that the most rational way of assessing and reducing the risks of
engineered facilities and infrastructures subject to natural and man-made phenomena, both …

Performance-based design is fast becoming the benchmark approach for achieving designs
that rationally meet society's need for a truly safe built environment. While the principles of …

The high-rise buildings designed with a long lifetime may be exposed to one or more
extreme hazards. Traditionally, specifications separately treated the multiple extreme …

Recent trends in the design and analysis of large scale wind excited structures, such as tall
buildings, are towards performance-based design strategies. This is partly due to the …

A probabilistic procedure for the performance-based design of tall buildings subject to wind
actions is illustrated. The central objective of the procedure is the assessment of the …

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 …

This paper presents a numerical algorithm for the simulation of the along-wind dynamic
response of tall buildings under turbulent winds, using Monte Carlo (MC) integration …

Tall mass-timber buildings utilize engineered wood panels to form their main gravity and
lateral load resisting systems, which makes them lighter and very flexible. As a result …