To improve urban seismic resilience, a reasonable retrofitting scheme for buildings is required. Urban cities contain large number of buildings, making it challenging to precisely assess the benefits each one. This paper proposes cost–benefit assessment framework that takes into account risk, damage, retrofit costs, economic losses, and analyses city-scale buildings. The proposed adopts readily...

One of the challenges of supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking and mediation is generating a μ term consistent with the requirements of electro-weak symmetry breaking. The most common approach to the problem is to generate the μ term through a SUSY breaking F-term. Often these models produce unacceptably large Bμ terms as a result. We will present an alternate approach, where the μ term is generated di...

The restoration of strength and stiffness of damaged reinforced concrete beams with deficient reinforcements, through retrofitting, was experimentally and numerically studied. Retrofitting is carried out by wrapping glass fiber strips using cement-based composite binders. Six beams of size 1500mm (length) x100mm (width) x 150mm (depth) have been tested in four-point bending. Three beams are use...

ABSTRACT: The absence of explicit guidelines for the rehabilitation of existing pole structures was the motivation to investigate the effectiveness of steel jacketing for the retrofitting of self-supporting steel and reinforced concrete telecommunication poles. The present study describes a numerical simulation of preand post-retrofitted conditions of the pole structures subjected to seismic ha...

Adaptation of evidence-based interventions upon implementation into new practice settings is universal, yet poorly understood. During a cross-site evaluation of the implementation of a proven intervention for pediatric asthma care coordination into 4 resource-challenged settings, we conducted in-depth interviews with site representatives, who reported how and why they modified intervention comp...