Abstract Developing fragility functions is the essential step in incorporating important uncertainties next-generation performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) methodology. The present paper aimed to involve record-to-record variability as well modelling uncertainty sources developing curves at collapse limit state. In this article, order reduce dispersion of uncertainties, Group Method ...

This paper deals with the seismic vulnerability of monumental unreinforced masonry (URM) towers, fragility which has not yet been sufficiently studied. Thus, present fills this gap by developing models to investigate response URM towers up collapse. On mount Athos, Greece, there exist more than a hundred medieval having served mainly as campaniles or fortifications. Eight representative were se...

Fragility curves depict the relationship between a weather variable (wind speed, gust speed, ice accumulation, precipitation rate) and the observed outages for a targeted infrastructure network. This paper describes an empirical study of the county by county distribution of power outages and one minute weather variables during Hurricane Irene with the objective of comparing 1) ‘as built’ fragil...

Seismic safety of liquid storage tanks is of considerable importance due to its application in different industries. In Iran, most of these storage tanks are designed based on API650 code provisions. Despite designing tanks according to API standard, the lesson learned from previous earthquakes, shows different kind of damage occurring on them. This study is an investigation on evaluating diffe...

This study analyses characteristics of lung injuries produced by alveolar overdistension in three animal species. Mechanical ventilation at normal tidal volume (10 mL/Kg) and high tidal volume (50 mL/Kg) was applied for 30 min in each species. Data were gathered on wet/dry weight ratio, histological score, and area of alveolar collapse. Five out of six rabbits with high tidal volume developed t...

In this paper, we use the recent collapse of the ARS market as the laboratory to study issues on the fragility of financial innovations and systemic risks. We find strong evidence of investor runs for liquidity—partly caused by a self-fulfilling panic—and coordination failures among major broker-dealers in providing liquidity support. The two forces amplify each other dynamically, resulting in ...

A progressive curve representation based on reverse subdivision is introduced. Multiresolution structures for common subdivision rules that have both banded reconstruction and decomposition filters are produced. Multiresolution filters are usually applied to the whole curve uniformly, while progressive curves are based on collapse and split operations that can be applied locally on any portion ...

Hybrid glasses connect the emerging field of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with the glass formation, amorphization and melting processes of these chemically versatile systems. Though inorganic zeolites collapse around the glass transition and melt at higher temperatures, the relationship between amorphization and melting has so far not been investigated. Here we show how heating MOFs of zeoli...