Damage assessment involves the difficulties of defining, assessing, and modelling the variables involved as well as handling uncertainty. This paper presents a methodology for the damage assessment of RC structures based on fuzzy logic. In the proposed system, the variables defined are the same as those used in the “rapid screening procedure” developed by FEMA and described through a data colle...

Yapılardaki deprem hasarının tahmini, can ve mal kaybını önleme açısından oldukça önemlidir. Hasar plastik mafsal parametrelerinin şekil değiştirme sınır durumlarının gerçek yapı davranışını yansıtması oranında başarılı olmaktadır. Yapı tasarımında mevcut değerlendirmesinde çeşitli standartlar ile parametreleri değerleri belirlenmiştir. Federal Acil Durum Yönetim Kurumu (FEMA) Amerikan İnşaat M...

at present, the tubular structural systems are mainly used in tall buildings to withstand earthquake loads. although it is possible to analyse the structure by finite element methods using standard three dimensional programs, the system is generally time-consuming and expensive in the primary design work. in this paper, for the analysis of framed-tube systems, a simple method was studied and de...

Abstract The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers a portfolio of flood risk mitigation options for high-risk homeowners, hoping to reduce damages. Buyout (home acquisition) and home retrofit (e.g., elevation) are candidates available homeowners. FEMA has recently amended increased its buyout efforts. This study examines homeowners’ stated preference elevation contracts using survey...

This paper compares the target displacement estimate from four current nonlinear static procedures—FEMA-356 CM, ASCE­ 41 CM, ATC-40 CSM, and FEMA-440 CSM—with the value derived from recorded motions of five strongly shaken reinforced concrete buildings.This comparison provides useful insight into two important questions: (1) how much does the target displacement vary among the four nonlinear st...

accurate identification of seismic hazard and the estimation of associated seismic demands are the key components in the performance-based seismic design (pbsd). although nonlinear time history (nth) analysis is the most precise procedure to evaluate the seismic demands of buildings structures, it is relatively complex and time-consuming for routine applications. nonlinear static procedures (ns...

Abstract Sociology shows that blindly pursuing the fairness of resource distribution will significantly reduce people’s enthusiasm for work, which is not conducive to increase total social material resources. Promoting system in stages, is, achieving on premise a certain basis, can only ensure efficiency accumulation, but also promote system. Therefore, inspired by above, we introduced multi-st...