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Residential building and sub-building level flood damage analysis using simple and complex models
Flood damage assessment is critical for optimal risk management investments. Damage models evaluate physical damage or monetary loss from direct...
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Building-SAT: a whole building life cycle assessment tool framework to quantify the global warming potential of buildings in South Asian Region
This paper presents a framework to mathematically model the Green House Gas (GHG) emissions of any type of building, especially applicable for South...
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Development of a building information model-guided post-earthquake building inspection framework using 3D synthetic environments
Computer vision-based inspection methods show promise for automating post-earthquake building inspections. These methods survey a building with...
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Exploring changes in building strength using seismic wave deconvolution
In order to avoid the casualties caused by damaged buildings during strong earthquakes, it’s important and essential to understand the seismic design...
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Analysis of alternative building envelope solutions to improve energy efficiency
improving the building envelope can play a central role in energy efficiency (E.E) and embodied carbon (EC) emissions reduction during the building...
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Parametric pushover curve model for seismic performance assessment of building stock
An effective assessment of the seismic risk of building stock is important for informing stakeholders and develo** strategies to improve community...
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Seismic risk and vulnerability models considering typical urban building portfolios
The seismic risk and vulnerability of urban building clusters are fundamental indicators for quantifying urban seismic resilience. The empirical...
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Building capacities for transformative climate action: lessons from five fields of practice
Capacity building approaches have a deep history of mobilizing agency and enabling change across development, governance, and environmental contexts....
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A Rapid Estimation Method for Post-earthquake Building Losses
Rapid estimation of post-earthquake building damage and loss is very important in urgent response efforts. The current approach leaves much room for...
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Seismic loss assessment for regional building portfolios considering empirical seismic vulnerability functions
Assessing the actual seismic economic losses of regional building portfolios is essential to quantify the seismic resilience of urban and rural...
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Incorporating potential environmental impacts in building seismic design decisions
Seismic losses due to earthquakes have been shown to have significant economic, social and environmental consequences. Over recent years, research to...
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Intelligent assessment of building damage of 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquake by multiple remote sensing approaches
A catastrophic Mw7.8 earthquake hit southeast Turkey and northwest Syria on February 6th, 2023, leading to more than 44 k deaths and 160 k building...
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Capacity curves for monitored existing buildings and within- and between-building variability of secant stiffness
In this study, accelerometric data from seven Japanese buildings under long-term monitoring were analysed to explore the variability of the...
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Assessment of Building Physical Vulnerability in Earthquake-Debris Flow Disaster Chain
Large earthquakes not only directly damage buildings but also trigger debris flows, which cause secondary damage to buildings, forming a more...
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Exploring the determinants of disaster and climate resilience building in Zimbabwe’s rural communities
With the burgeoning threats from natural hazards and extreme weather events driven by climate change in every section and sector of society, building...
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Building information extraction and earthquake damage prediction in an old urban area based on UAV oblique photogrammetry
Seismic performance investigation and earthquake damage prediction of buildings in old urban areas are of great significance for the resistance to...
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Kinematic analysis and fault-dependence of building-wall fracture patterns during moderate earthquakes
Two recent moderate earthquakes in South Korea, the 2016 M W 5.5 Gyeongju earthquake and 2017 M W 5.4 Pohang earthquake, caused damages to modern...
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Efficiency analysis of ITN loss function for deep semantic building segmentation
In using deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) for semantic building segmentation, the standard loss functions such as cross-entropy usually...
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Local Torrential Rainfall Event within a Mei-Yu Season Mesoscale Convective System: Importance of Back-Building Processes
An extreme rainfall event occurred over Hangzhou, China, during the afternoon hours on 24 June 2013. This event occurred under suitable synoptic...
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Residential building stock in Serbia: classification and vulnerability for seismic risk studies
Regional seismic risk assessment is necessary for designing effective seismic risk mitigation measures. In general, such risk assessment studies...
