Vulnerability is a fundamental component of risk and its understanding is important for
characterising the reliability of infrastructure assets and systems and for mitigating risks. The …

Safety and serviceability of highway bridges, during and after an earthquake, is a
prerequisite to ensure continuous transport facilities, emergency and evacuation routes …

Probabilistic seismic demand models are a common and often essential step in generating
analytical fragility curves for highway bridges. With these probabilistic models being …

Modern societies and economies become more complex and at the same time more
sophisticated. Still, the experience from earthquakes reveals that even the developed …

Quantitative and qualitative assessment of the seismic risk to highway bridges is crucial in
pre-earthquake planning, and post-earthquake response of transportation systems. Such …

Fragility analyses is a powerful tool for the seismic risk assessment of highway bridges.
Multispan continuous concrete box-girder bridges account for the bulk of the California …

Fragility curves are commonly used in civil engineering to assess the vulnerability of
structures to earthquakes. The probability of failure associated with a prescribed criterion …

The assessment of the seismic performance depends on the choice of the earthquake
Intensity Measure (IM). During the past years many IMs, which take into account not only …

Table 2.1 HAZUS grouping and fragility relationships for bridge classes in California. 23
Table 3.1–Idealization of bridge columns. 44 Table 4.1–Uncertainty distribution considered …

Recent efforts in the earthquake engineering community have focused largely on
developing a performance‐based earthquake engineering assessment methodology …