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Rui Pinho
Civil Engineering
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Open AccessMethods for evaluating the significance and importance of differences amongst probabilistic seismic hazard results for engineering and risk analyses: a review and insights
When new seismic hazard estimates are published it is natural to compare them to existing results for the same location. This type of comparison routinely indicates differences amongst hazard estimates obtaine...
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Open AccessComparative nonlinear soil-structure interaction analyses using macro-element and soil-block modelling approaches
In dynamic soil-structure interaction problems, involving the coupling of structure, foundation and soil, the use of a nonlinear macro-element modelling approach may result particularly advantageous not only t...
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Open AccessIncorporating dwelling mounds into induced seismic risk analysis for the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands
In order to inform decision-making regarding measures to mitigate the impact of induced seismicity in the Groningen gas field in the Netherlands, a comprehensive seismic risk model has been developed. Starting...
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Open AccessShake-table response simulation of a URM building specimen using discrete micro-models with varying degrees of detail
Recent technological advances have enabled earthquake engineering researchers to develop numerical models of increasing complexity, capable of duly reproducing even the smallest structural detail. In the case ...
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Open AccessIntegrated economic and environmental building classification and optimal seismic vulnerability/energy efficiency retrofitting
A life cycle framework for a new integrated classification system for buildings and the identification of renovation strategies that lead to an optimal balance between reduction of seismic vulnerability and in...
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Seismic fragility analysis of URM buildings founded on piles: influence of dynamic soil–structure interaction models
The impact of adopting different dynamic soil–structure interaction (SSI) models on the assessment of seismic fragility functions for buildings with pile foundations is studied herein. Given the importance on ...
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Probabilistic damage assessment of buildings due to induced seismicity
Natural gas production in the Groningen field in the Netherlands is causing induced earthquakes that have raised concerns regarding the safety of the local population given that the exposed building stock (whi...
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Elastic and Inelastic Analysis of Frames with a Force-Based Higher-Order 3D Beam Element Accounting for Axial-Flexural-Shear-Torsional Interaction
When one of the dimensions of a structural member is not clearly larger than the two orthogonal ones, engineers are usually compelled to simulate it with refined meshes of shell or solid finite elements that ...
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Investigation of the characteristics of Portuguese regular moment-frame RC buildings and development of a vulnerability model
A vulnerability model capable of providing the probabilistic distribution of loss ratio for a set of intensity measure levels is a fundamental tool to perform earthquake loss estimation and seismic risk assess...
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Seismic risk assessment for mainland Portugal
The assessment of the seismic risk at a national scale represents an important resource in order to introduce measures that may reduce potential losses due to future earthquakes. This evaluation results from t...
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Earthquake loss estimation of residential buildings in Pakistan
Pakistan is an earthquake-prone region due to its tectonic setting resulting in high hazard with moderate-to-strong ground motions and vulnerability of structures and infrastructures, leading to the loss of l...
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Development of the OpenQuake engine, the Global Earthquake Model’s open-source software for seismic risk assessment
The Global Earthquake Model aims to combine the main features of state-of-the-art science, global collaboration and buy-in, transparency and openness in an initiative to calculate and communicate earthquake ri...
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Methods for Inelastic Analysis of Bridges
The chapter presents in a uniform way the available inelastic analysis methods for the seismic assessment and design of bridges. Since inelastic response-history analysis has long been used for bridges without...
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Modelling of Bridges for Inelastic Analysis
The analytical tools necessary for the implementation of inelastic methods for bridges are presented. The chapter starts with available models for the bridge deck and their role in seismic assessment, addressi...
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Case Studies and Comparative Evaluation of Methods
The methods presented in chapter 3 are applied here to specific case-studies, involving bridges with different length and configuration. The chapter starts with a critical discussion of the basic parameters th...
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Global Earthquake Model: Community-Based Seismic Risk Assessment
The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) initiative aims to develop a global model of earthquake risk as an open source, community-driven project. In order to begin this in a structured way, a number of Global Compon...
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A comparison of seismic risk maps for Italy
National seismic risk maps are an important risk mitigation tool as they can be used for the prioritization of regions within a country where retrofitting of the building stock or other risk mitigation measure...
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Deriving vulnerability curves using Italian earthquake damage data
The concerted effort to collect earthquake damage data in Italy over the past 30 years has led to the development of an extensive database from which vulnerability predictions for the Italian building stock ca...
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An adaptive capacity spectrum method for assessment of bridges subjected to earthquake action
Estimating seismic demands on structures, to predict their performance level with confidence, requires explicit consideration of the structural inelastic behaviour: to this end, the use of nonlinear static pro...
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A Probabilistic Displacement-based Vulnerability Assessment Procedure for Earthquake Loss Estimation
Earthquake loss estimation studies require predictions to be made of the proportion of a building class falling within discrete damage bands from a specified earthquake demand. These predictions should be made...
