New insights into the relationship between seismic intensity measures and nonlinear structural response

YF Vargas-Alzate, JE Hurtado, LG Pujades - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2022 - Springer
This paper focuses on the probabilistic analysis of Intensity Measures (IM s) and
Engineering Demand Parameters (EDP s) in the context of earthquake-induced ground …

Assessing community resilience, housing recovery and impact of mitigation strategies at the urban scale: a case study after the 2012 Northern Italy Earthquake

A Basaglia, A Aprile, E Spacone, L Pelà - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, the reconstruction process of a town affected by the 2012 Northern Italy
Earthquake is analysed using information published on the town journal. Relevant aspects …

Dimensionality reduction techniques in structural and earthquake engineering

P Hajibabaee, F Pourkamali-Anaraki… - Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques are becoming increasingly important in
engineering and scientific applications for feature extraction and data visualization …

Energy damage index based on capacity and response spectra

SA Diaz, LG Pujades, AH Barbat, YF Vargas… - Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
Non-linear dynamic analysis and the damage index of Park-Ang have been often used to
assess expected seismic damage to a structure. Depending on the size of the structure and …

An index-based method for evaluating seismic retrofitting techniques. Application to a reinforced concrete primary school in Huelva

MV Requena-García-Cruz, A Morales-Esteban… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
A project named PERSISTAH (Projetos de Escolas Resilientes aos SISmos no Território do
Algarve e de Huelva, in Portuguese) is being developed. It aims to cooperatively assess and …

Comparison of earthquake risk for masonry and RC buildings in Barcelona using existing sets of vulnerability functions

MA Salgado-Gálvez, S Momin, S Grajales… - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2024 - Springer
Barcelona is in an area of low-to medium-seismicity and its earthquake vulnerability and risk
has been assessed in different studies over the last 20 years. Most of these works have …

[HTML][HTML] Fragility curves of existing RC buildings based on specific structural performance levels

M Vona - Open Journal of Civil Engineering, 2014 - scirp.org
In seismic risk mitigation policies, fragility functions of existing buildings play a fundamental
role. In this paper, a procedure to develop analytical fragility curves for Moment Resisting …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluación probabilista del riesgo sísmico de estructuras con base en la degradación de rigidez

AH Barbat, YF Vargas, LG Pujades… - Revista Internacional de …, 2016 - Elsevier
El análisis dinámico incremental es una poderosa herramienta para evaluar la
vulnerabilidad y el riesgo sísmico de edificios. Permite calcular el daño global de …

Hybrid loss exceedance curve (HLEC) for disaster risk assessment

CA Velásquez, OD Cardona, MG Mora, LE Yamin… - Natural Hazards, 2014 - Springer
Taken into account that the natural hazard risk is a contingent liability and, therefore, a
sovereign risk for national governments, it is important to assess properly the potential …

Seismic risk assessment using stochastic nonlinear models

YF Vargas-Alzate, N Lantada, R González-Drigo… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The basic input when seismic risk is estimated in urban environments is the expected
physical damage level of buildings. The vulnerability index and capacity spectrum-based …