Adaptive Incremental Dynamic Analysis (AIDA) is a novel ground motion selection scheme that adaptively changes the ground motion suites at different ground motion intensity levels to match hazardconsistent properties for structural response assessment. Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA), a current dynamic response history analysis practice in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE), use...

The SAFE (Satellites For Epidemiology) project is co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and coordinated by MEDES (FRANCE). In a twoday earthquake readiness exercise that was held on the island of Crete, Greece, on November 5-6, 2007, it demonstrated a component-based system for health early warning. The exercise that was coordinated by the Prefecture of Heraklion and FORTH-ICS, involved ...

Motivation: Reinforced concrete structures, RCS, are strongly heterogeneous composites, the performance of which depends on the subtle interaction of the brittle concrete and the ductile reinforcement. Under extreme seismic events, the interplay between the two components is critical for the safety and survival of RCS as demonstrated by dramatic failures during recent earthquake disasters in Tu...

A critical issue in the probabilistic framework for performance-based earthquake engineering is the choice of ground motion intensity measure(s). In an effort to identify optimum intensity measure(s), a comprehensive parametric statistical study based on 881 earthquake record components was conducted to identify the correlation between (1) seismological variables (SV’s) and traditional ground m...

This report addresses the broad role of aftershocks in the Performance-based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) process. This is an area which has, to date, not received careful scrutiny nor explicit quantitative analysis. We begin by introducing Aftershock Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (APSHA). APSHA, similar to conventional mainshock PSHA, is a procedure to characterize the timevarying aft...

In this paper attention is given to the efficient numerical evaluation of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) performance-based earthquake engineering framework equations. In particular, potential problems in determining an adequate yet efficient region of integration are discussed. An algorithm called “Magnitude-oriented Adaptive Quadrature” (MAQ) is developed, which is an integ...

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The Kutch Earthquake of January 26, 2001 in Gujarat, India, caused the destruction of a large number of modern 4 to 10-storied buildings. After this earthquake, doubts arose about our professional practices, building by-laws, construction materials, building codes and education for civil engineers and architects. It led to large number of short-term courses and workshops, revision of the seismi...

The field of earthquake engineering is rapidly moving towards the use of sophisticated computational methods in engineering practice. This development is motivated by improved capabilities to numerically simulate nonlinear structural behavior during strong ground motion and the observation from recent earthquakes that the actual performance implied by simplified design guidelines is unclear. In...