Empirical seismic fragility assessment and optimal risk mitigation of building contents

S Majdalaweyh, W Pang - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Building contents proved challenging in performance-based earthquake engineering
frameworks because of the data scarcity. Despite the content seismic losses in the past two …

A new approach to assessing reparability for seismic risk assessment of buildings

A Safiey, W Pang - Earthquake Spectra, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Advanced performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE), as documented by FEMA P-
58 provisions, can well serve as the bedrock for a building-specific risk assessment …

Seismic vulnerability assessment of anchored block type contents due to sliding and overturning

S Majdalaweyh, W Pang, A Safiey, E Ziaei… - 2019 - tigerprints.clemson.edu
Damage to contents and nonstructural components is often the main driver of property
losses against smaller earthquakes as evidenced by empirical evidence from past events. In …

A probabilistic casualty model to include injury severity levels in seismic risk assessment

W Pang, S Majdalaweyh, A Safiey, K Rokneddin… - 2020 - tigerprints.clemson.edu
Despite the increasing adoption of Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) in
seismic risk assessment and design of buildings, earthquakes resulted in around 1.8 million …

Rethinking treatment of irreparability in the context of performance-based earthquake engineering

A Safiey, W Pang, E Ziaei, S Majdalaweyh… - Structures Congress …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
ABSTRACT FEMA P-58 is comprehensive performance-based earthquake engineering
(PBEE) loss estimation framework which incorporates a three-module Monte Carlo …

Ground motion duration effects on the seismic risk assessment of wood light-frame buildings

W Pang, A Safiey, S Majdalaweyh, E Ziaei… - 2020 - tigerprints.clemson.edu
Wood construction comprises a large portion of building stocks of several countries across
the globe with high preparedness for earthquakes including Japan, Canada, and the United …

Performance-Based Seismic Loss Estimation of Buildings

A Safiey - 2020 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation presents a component-based loss assessment framework for estimating
monetary losses due to damages in structural and non-structural elements for different …