Protecting civil infrastructure from natural and man-made hazards is vital. Understanding the
impact of these hazards helps allocate resources efficiently. Researchers have recently …

This paper presents a framework to develop generalizable surrogate models to predict
seismic vulnerability and environmental impacts of a class of buildings at a particular …

It is a well-known issue that the 2050 target of carbon emissions neutrality will be reached
only with the co-operation of all the interested sectors, and the construction sector could be …

A holistic evaluation of a building's environmental impact must include a thorough
accounting of both its operating and embodied energies, inclusive of the influence of hazard …

The integration of risk reduction measures for earthquakes and floods is a promising
concept in the field of multi-hazard disaster risk reduction. However, existing studies mostly …

Natural disasters affect the built environment's infrastructure and disturb the economic
sector's sustainability and welfare. This requires a disaster recovery decision support tool …

Performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) assessments are data-, effort-, and
time-intensive, usually requiring a detailed structural model and limiting their integration with …

With growing shoreline populations and projections of damage and losses from coastal
natural hazards, such as hurricanes and nor'easters, coastal community resilience has …

Globalization and cloud computing have allowed major strides forward in terms of
communication possibilities, but it is also illuminating how many different resource options …

Most replicated storage and file systems either take a specialized hardware approach or a
software-oriented approach to fault tolerance. The paper describes a fault-tolerant disk …