Post-earthquake fires (PEFs) pose a significant secondary hazard in earthquake-prone regions, compounding the destruction caused by seismic events and threatening structural safety. This review explores the interplay between seismic damage and fire r...
This study explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in revolutionizing earthquake risk mitigation across six key areas. Unlike traditional approaches, this paper examines how AI-driven innovations can uniquely enhance ear...
This paper presents a probabilistic methodology for generating fragility surfaces for low- to mid-rise steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) under fire-following-earthquake (FFE). The framework integrates nonlinear dynamic seismic analysis, residual d...
The probability of extreme events such as an earthquake, fire or blast occurring during the lifetime of a structure is relatively low but these events can cause serious damage to the structure as well as to human life. Due to the significant conseque...
This work presents a structured methodology for multi-hazard risk assessment in post-mining coal areas, addressing the complex interactions between natural, mining, and technological hazards. The methodology provides a flexible, semi-quantitative mix...
Against the backdrop of increasing seismic threats to cultural heritage globally, the vulnerability of historical masonry structures demands urgent attention [...]
This study presents a framework for assessing the resilience of steel special moment-resisting frame (SMRF) buildings under sequential earthquake–flood hazards. Surrogate models, including a stacked attention-based LSTM network (Stack-AttenLSTM...
Post-earthquake fires (PEFs) represent a complex, cascading hazard in which seismic damage creates ignition conditions that can overwhelm urban infrastructure and severely compromise structural integrity. Despite growing scholarly attention, the lite...
This study investigates the cumulative damage of a 20-story high-rise steel building equipped with buckling-restrained braces (BRB) under the likely occurrence of earthquake and wind events in the design life of the building. The objective of this re...
Geopolymer concrete (GPC), here defined primarily as concrete based on low-calcium alkali-activated aluminosilicate binders, exhibits durability responses that depend strongly on precursor chemistry, gel assemblage, pore structure and exposure condit...
Cold-formed steel (CFS) structures are lightweight, flexible and lightly damped, making them sensitive to both wind and seismic actions. Although wind and earthquakes can occur concurrently, the nonlinear response and fragility of CFS structures unde...
This study investigates cross-border cascading hazards and infrastructure vulnerabilities in the Sava River Basin, a seismically active and flood-prone region spanning the Slovenia–Croatia border. Conducted within the CROSScade project, the res...
Earthquake and post-earthquake fire cascading hazards impose disproportionate risks on dense informal historic districts across South Asia. Conventional multi-hazard evaluation methodologies fail to accommodate non-engineered mixed-use constructions...
Numerous catastrophic events, including fire, vehicle collisions, and air blasts, have highlighted the significance of examining bridge performance under multi-hazard scenarios. While these hazards cause extensive damage, the loss of life, and drasti...
The Multi-Parameter Wireless Sensing (MPwise) system is an innovative instrumental design that allows different sensor types to be combined with relatively high-performance computing and communications components. These units, which incorporate off-t...
Multiple hazards, which threaten people’s lives and property, are the main concern for engineers in preventing dangers to buildings. In particular, densely populated areas, such as capital cities and tall buildings, are exposed to higher risks...
Climate change, rapid urbanization, land-use changes, and the creation of a multi-layered risk environment by multiple disaster hazards have made interdisciplinary educational models—capable of integrating resilience knowledge into planning and...
Conventional structural design frameworks assess natural hazards as statistically independent phenomena, a practice that can lead to significant underestimation of risk for structures subjected to sequential or concurrent hazards. The generation of p...
Wind power is a substantial resource to assist global efforts on the decarbonization of energy. The drive to increase capacity has led to ever-increasing blade tip heights and lightweight, slender towers. These structures are subject to a variety of...
Reinforced concrete flat slab–column structures, lacking the redundancy provided by a beam–column system, are susceptible to punching shear failure under extreme loading conditions, which may lead to progressive collapse with catastrophic...
Assessment of a single bridge and management system for all bridges in the network is still a major challenge, although much research has been carried out and implemented in existing networks over the last four decades. This paper presents a case stu...
This review surveys the recent literature on the fire resistance of reinforced concrete (RC) columns based on a bibliometric analysis of publications to reveal research trends and focus areas. The collected studies are synthesized from the perspectiv...
The spread of the wind energy industry has caused the construction of wind farms in areas prone to high seismic activity. Accordingly, the analysis of wind turbine loading associated with earthquakes is of crucial importance for an accurate assessmen...
Given the growing spread of glass as a construction material, the knowledge of structural response must be ensured, especially under dynamic accidental loads. In this regard, an increasingly popular method to probabilistically characterize the seismi...
Living in the shadow of ‘Iddu’, the Stromboli volcano, requires a unique cultural adaptation. This study explores the risk perception of the permanent residents of Stromboli Island (Italy), a complex multi-hazard environment where persist...
Recent catastrophic bridge fire incidents have highlighted the critical need for effective post-fire assessment of bridges, thereby challenging the dominant practice of complete replacement following these destructive events. This study investigates...
Seabed scour-induced degradation of the pile–soil system, together with the coupled action of seismic, wind and wave loads, poses great challenges to the long-term service safety of jacket-type offshore wind turbines. In this study, an integrat...
This study investigates the robustness of steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) under column loss scenarios, both in undamaged and post-seismic conditions. In this context, robustness is defined as the ability of a damaged structure to prevent progres...
Monopile offshore wind turbines are vulnerable to excessive vibration under coupled wind, wave, and seismic loading because of their slender and flexible structural characteristics. This study investigates a single-sided vibro-impact nonlinear energy...
This paper presents a comprehensive on-site decision-making framework for assessing the structural integrity of a jacket-type offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico, installed at a water depth of 50 m. Six critical analyses—(i) static operatio...
This paper reviews the current state of research on the seismic behavior of precast segmental bridge piers, systematically elucidating their performance under different connection configurations in the context of accelerated bridge construction and r...
Lightweight and high-strength sandwich panels are used across aerospace, transportation, marine, energy, civil and protective systems because large face separation can provide high flexural rigidity and specific load capacity at low mass. This review...
The operation of modern power networks is increasingly exposed to overlapping climate extremes and volatile system conditions, making it essential to adopt scheduling approaches that are resilient as well as economical. In this study, a two-stage sto...
As critical national energy arteries, long-distance large-scale cross-regional gas transmission networks are characterized by high operating pressures, extensive spatial coverage, and complex topological structures. Thus, the multi-hazard profiles th...
This study develops a procedure for performing multi-attribute decision-making ship structural design of a multi-purpose ship. The already designed ship is further structurally designed to comply with the requirements of the Classification Societies....
In traditional structural disaster prevention design, the effects of various disasters on structures are usually considered separately, and the effects of multi-type hazards are rarely considered. The traditional Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) and Active Ma...
The extreme sea conditions caused by typhoons pose a threat to the design safety of marine and coastal engineering structures. In the past, design wave height calculation models that only considered the frequency of typhoons ignored the influence of...
Carbon fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) are a lightweight alternative solution for various applications due to their mechanical and structural properties. However, debonding at the fibre–matrix interface is an important failure mechanism in co...
This study experimentally investigated the wave transmission and setup characteristics of biomimetic submerged structures as Nature-based Solutions (NbSs) for coastal protection. A non-porous monolithic pillar and a highly porous, multi-branched stag...
Reliable estimation of energy demands imposed on a structure by a design ground motion is a key component of energy-based design. Although several studies have been conducted to quantify the energy demands in single-degree-of-freedoms systems, few ha...
In X-ray security inspection imagery, hazardous object detection is challenged by severe object overlap/occlusion, ambiguous boundaries of small objects, and complex texture representations caused by material diversity. Although YOLOv8-seg provides r...
Surveys on the optimum seismic design of structures reveal that many investigations focus on minimizing initial costs while satisfying performance constraints. Although reducing initial costs while complying with earthquake design codes significantly...
Numerous countries across the globe have witnessed the recent decades’ trend of multi-storey timber buildings on the rise, owing to advances in engineering sciences and timber construction technologies. Despite the growth and numerous advantages of t...
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We designed and tested an expert opinion-based multi-criteria model for the assessment of several components of the wildfire risk, including ignition and outbreak hazards (the probability of ignition “success”), propagation hazard, as wel...
The containment of internal explosions remains a critical challenge in the design of protective infrastructure for ammunition storage and hazardous industrial facilities. To address the limitations of conventional single-layer reinforced concrete (RC...
The existing Scoggins Dam and reservoir are in Washington County, Oregon, and the title is held by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). Reclamation has previously identified dam safety concerns related to the existing embankment dam. Regiona...
Submarine lifelines (pipelines and cables) often cross areas characterized by earthquake-related geohazards (tectonic faulting, landslides and seabed liquefaction). Avoiding geologically hazardous areas increases the length (i.e., cost), whereas a po...
People living in areas of significant seismic risk seldom undertake sufficient preparations to safeguard their families. This is most problematic in remote communities such as those along the Dead Sea Fault, Israel, where self-reliance is a key facto...
This study proposes a regional-scale evaluation framework for assessing the seismic resilience of residential buildings by integrating earthquake monitoring and early-warning capacity, seismic hazard background, and structural seismic capacity. An in...
Large steel frame support structures may encounter multiple-hazard coupling effects, such as earthquakes and wind loads, during their service period, and their combined damage effects are often significantly greater than those under single-hazard con...
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