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Instrumentation to monitor building damage from excavation induced ground movement
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
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Mapping Building Damage Caused by Earthquakes Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning
Buildings are essential parts to human life, which provide the place to dwell, educate, entertain, etc. However, they are usually vulnerable to earthquakes, and collapsed buildings are the main factor of fatalities and directly impact livelihoods. It is particularly important to quickly and …
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Prediction and Assessment of Ground Movement and Building Damage Induced by Adjacent Excavation
The precise interaction between buildings and soils is by its nature a complicated one, as it is a function of a myriad of variables related both to the soil and the structure. The problem is exacerbated when externally induced ground movements are imposed, as in the case of adjacent excavations. …
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A computational framework for modelling post-earthquake building damage, loss of functionality and recovery
… to communities that last beyond physical damage to buildings and infrastructure. In both New Zealand and international contexts, this has prompted a shift in seismic design paradigm from a sole focus on life safety to approaches that also limit damage and support timely recovery. However, …
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Applicability of linear analysis in probabilistic estimation of seismic building damage to reinforced-concrete structures
… based, there has been an effort to relate building response to damage. Because decision-makers typically consider human lives, property damage and cost, setting performance requirements in terms of the damage that a building is likely to sustain over time and its associated cost is more …
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The Response of Buildings to Excavation-Induced Ground Movements
… for developing guidelines for controlling building damage and to develop a procedure for estimating building damage due to excavation-induced ground movement. The procedure developed for estimating building damage can be implemented for practical use in the project planning and design …
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Reliability Evaluation and Damage Reduction of Woodframe Buildings Under Seismic Loads
… in terms of both maximum story drift ratio and building damage index for each of the six selected buildings, with uncertainties in both demand and capacity accounted for The adequacy of existing buildings and current design is examined in terms of building damage and the corresponding …
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A Cognitive Assessment of Post-Disaster Imagery Requirements
… when hazard and disaster events happen. Rapid damage assessment is time-critical to distribute accessible response resources and accelerate relief efforts. Currently there are many researchers focusing on post-disaster damage assessment studies, most of which are based on fine-resolution remote …
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Integration of graphical, physics-based, and machine learning methods for assessment of impact and recovery of the built environment from wind hazards
… impacts, researchers have been improving building codes and exploring further concepts of community resilience. Community resilience refers to a community's ability to absorb a hazard (minimize impacts) and "bounce back" afterwards (quick recovery time). Therefore, the two main components …
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Active tectonics and earthquake hazards in continental mountain ranges and foreland basins
… fault geometry. Finally, the earthquake-induced building damage in foreland basins was investigated. Using seismic-wavefield modelling, alongside fragility curves for generic building types, the relationships between earthquake location, characteristics, and building damage were investigated. The …
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An Interoperable Framework for Real-Time Infrastructure Monitoring and Deep Learning–Based Post-Disaster Damage Assessment for Urban Resilience
Rapid infrastructure damage assessment is essential for effective emergency response, recovery planning, and urban resilience following extreme hazard events. Conventional post-disaster damage assessment relies heavily on manual field surveys, which are slow, labor-intensive, and often infeasible …
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A Probabilistic Decision Support System for a Performance-Based Design of Infrastructures
… framework is tested on a nine-story office building in a seismic zone with the probabilistic decision criteria of: building damage and business interruption costs, casualty costs, and CO2 emission costs. Twelve alternative design configurations and four decision maker utility functions under …
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Analysis of residential building performance in tornadoes as a function of building and hazard characteristics
Tornadoes damage and destroy many thousands of buildings per year in the United States leading to significant economic losses and long-lasting disruption to communities. In an effort to better understand the relationship between tornado wind speeds and resulting damage, multiple data sources from …
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Schnellbewertung der Erdbebengefährdung von Gebäuden
… Eurocode 8. The application of this method to a building enables the user to quantify the expected building damage for different seismic intensities. The second objective is the development of a procedure for the "Performance Based Seismic Design". This procedure enables the designer to link …
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Pre- and Post-Disaster Remote Sensing with Drones for Supporting Disaster Management
… acquisition (a preparedness activity) and rapid damage assessment (a response activity). As such, the second study presents the first pre-disaster drone-based mapping mission over an urban area (downtown Victoria, British Columbia) approved by Transport Canada. The objective was to assess the …
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From structural damage assessment to functionality estimation: A comprehensive modeling approach for buildings subjected to hurricane winds
Buildings are critical to the built environment and human daily lives, providing essential functions such as housing, healthcare, education, retail, manufacturing, etc. The occurrence of natural hazards can compromise buildings structurally and functionally. Building structural damage can cause …
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Long-term behaviour of twin tunnels in London clay
… period, contradicting the lack of further building damage observed in the field. A further parametric study also investigates the long-term behaviour of twin tunnels. Key interaction mechanisms are identified, leading to the postulation of the long-term interaction behaviour under different …
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Pressure versus impulse graph for blast-induced traumatic brain injury and correlation to observable blast injuries
… useful in presenting lung lethality regions and building damage thresholds. To present the animal bTBI data on a P-I graph for humans, the reported peak pressures needed to be scaled to humans, impulse values calculated, and impulse values scaled. Peak pressures were scaled using Jean et al.'s …
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Effect of existing building on tunneling-induced ground movements
… elastic bending and axial stiffness of a surface building on tunneling-induced ground movements. For the case of a weightless building, design modification factors for bending and axial stiffness are consistent with results promulgated in Potts and Addenbrooke (1997). For the self-weight scenario, …
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Risk-Based Wind Loss and Mitigation for Residential Wood Framed Construction
… of mitigation practices over the life of the building depends on the building characteristics (i.e., capacity) and the intensity and occurrence of wind speeds (i.e., demand). Effective decision making requires estimation of potential future losses based on many variables. Many models, …
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