Earthquakes injure millions and simultaneously disrupt the infrastructure to protect them.
This perspective argues that the current post-disaster investigation paradigm is insufficient to …

Significant damage to architectural non-structural components caused by recent seismic
events highlighted their importance in the building design and showed that their damage or …

A landmark experimental program was conducted to advance the understanding of
nonstructural system performance during earthquakes. The centerpiece of this effort …

The severe damage and functionality loss of hospitals resulting from damage to hospital
nonstructural components and medical equipment are frequently reported following …

The paper assesses the adequacy of existing numerical models in predicting the seismic
response of freestanding nonstructural components that exhibit rocking-dominated behavior …

An improved seismic fragility analysis method without any assumption on the distribution of
the target engineering demand parameter is proposed based on an ensemble neural …

Seismic base isolation performs well in protecting the drift‐and acceleration‐sensitive
elements in buildings, while its effectiveness in reducing the velocity response and thus …

A comparative seismic loss analysis is presented for a non-ductile infilled reinforced
concrete building evaluating the influence on direct economic losses of different parameters …

This paper describes a novel probabilistic fire following earthquake (FFE) framework to
develop FFE fragility functions for steel braced frames. In particular, an 8-storey steel braced …

To alleviate the detrimental diagonal bracing effect of the traditional rigid-connected
reinforced concrete (RC) flight to the boundary frame under lateral inputs, the study …