Improved seismic fragility modeling from empirical data

Structural Safety

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 320-336

  Straub, Daniel ^a   Der Kiureghian, Armen ^a  

^a Univ of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Electrical substation equipment; Lifeline systems; Probabilistic models; Seismic fragility; Statistical dependence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION EQUIPMENT; LIFELINE SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SEISMIC FRAGILITY;

SEISMIC RESPONSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EID: 41149173821     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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