Resilience is a challenging concept that is given many definitions and perspectives in the engineering infrastructure, systems engineering, and economic literatures. An emerging understanding of resilient systems is as a management principle or framework allowing for reconfiguration or adaptation in the face of threats or shocks. This is in contrast to the prevailing approach to engineered syst...

To accurately predict the seismic demands of structural systems, a proper set ground motions representing hazard given site is needed. In general, such includes large number motions, and thus may result in high computational cost. address this challenge without compromising accuracy fragility, paper proposes clustering-based algorithm that can select representative subset adaptively from motion...

Fragility curves are a common tool to appraise the expected damage critical infrastructure (CI) after an earthquake event. Previous studies offer fragility curve parameters for CI that suitable vast range of systems, without in-depth examination system architecture and subcomponents. These applicable in cases where thorough analysis is not required or when information related single poor. This ...

To improve the efficacy of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) treatment, it is desirable to identify the physical properties of urinary calculi could offer direct correlation with their fragilities during ESWL and thus could be used to guide treatment procedures for more effective stone fragmentation. Thirty stone specimens removed surgically were compressed by an axial testing system...