Accuracy of approximate methods of uncertainty propagation in seismic loss estimation

Structural Safety

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-24

  Bradley, Brendon A ^a   Lee, Dominic S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aleatory uncertainty; Epistemic uncertainty; First order second moment (FOSM) method; Loss deaggregation; Loss estimation; Performance based earthquake engineering (PBEE)

Indexed keywords

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; FIRST-ORDER SECOND-MOMENT (FOSM) METHOD; LOSS ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE-BASED EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING (PBEE);

CIVIL ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKES; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; LOCATION; OCEAN STRUCTURES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 70349865085     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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