Quantifying and communicating uncertainty in seismic risk assessment

Structural Safety

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-187

  Ellingwood, Bruce R ^a   Kinali, Kursat ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Uzun and Case Engineers LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Buildings; Earthquakes; Fragility; Reliability; Risk; Structural engineering

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DAMAGE DETECTION; EARTHQUAKES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISKS; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL PROBABILITIES; CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURES; DAMAGE STATES; EVALUATION OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURES; FRAGILITY; KNOWLEDGE-BASED; PERFORMANCE LEVELS; RISK MITIGATIONS; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENTS; SEISMIC RISKS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTIES; STEEL FRAMES; STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL RESPONSES; STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS; UNITED STATES; UTILITY SYSTEMS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 57049109188     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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