Computationally efficient seismic fragility analysis of geostructures

Computers and Structures

Volumn 87, Issue 19-20, 2009, Pages 1195-1203

  Lagaros, Nikos D ^a   Tsompanakis, Yiannis ^b   Psarropoulos, Prodromos N ^b   Georgopoulos, Evaggelos C ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Geostructures; Monte Carlo simulation; Seismic fragility analysis; Slope stability

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DAMAGE STATE; FRAGILITY ANALYSIS; FRAGILITY CURVES; GEOSTRUCTURES; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; LOWER PROBABILITIES; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PROBABILITY OF EXCEEDANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS METHOD; SEISMIC FRAGILITY; SEISMIC FRAGILITY ANALYSIS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC INTENSITY; SEISMIC LOADINGS; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS;

BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMOLOGY; SLOPE STABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 69249246981     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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