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Designing buildings for improved functional recovery represents a major shift in the current design paradigm. Given the novelty of the functional recovery building performance objective, current design provisions may be ineffective at controlling the
As building codes in the United States move toward the development of functional recovery provisions aimed at reducing recovery times following earthquakes, it is critical to benchmark how buildings designed following life-safety provisions perform in
In the field of structural engineering, functional recovery is a new, but non-standardized building design objective intended to improve a building's capacity to maintain or rapidly restore basic intended functions after a hazard event, such as an
Howie Joress, Rachel Cook, Austin McDannald, Mark Kozdras, Jason hattrick-simpers, Aron Newman, Scott Jones
Despite the long history of cement and concrete, there are still large gaps in fundamental knowledge of their properties development. The dire need for improved cementitious repair materials, requires a revolution in the way they are formulated and tested
Jack Baker, Edward Almeter, Dustin Cook, ABBIE LIEL, Curt Haselton
This paper proposes a model to quantify dependencies in component damage in the FEMA P-58 seismic performance assessment methodology, and to simulate damage realizations with the desired dependencies. The model is compatible with the prior FEMA P-58
While recent advancements have been made in performance-based earthquake engineering to stochastically quantify functional recovery times for individual buildings, most of the modern building stock is designed according to prescriptive codes and standards
Negar Mohammadgholibeyki, Maria Jose Echeverria, Amir Safiey, Dustin Cook, Maria Koliou, ABBIE LIEL
Damage from past earthquakes has significantly impeded post-earthquake building function, threatening community resilience, and motivating consideration of functional recovery in building design and assessment. This study examines whether it is feasible to
The development of risk-targeted design loads for recovery-based design first requires consensus around acceptable levels of building risk, specifically in terms of recovery-based performance objectives such as reoccupancy and functional recovery. This
Andrew Sen, Dustin Cook, ABBIE LIEL, Tarbin Basnet, Russell Berkowitz, Ariel Creagh, Wassim Ghannoum, Ayse Hortacsu, Insung Kim, Hamid Koodiani, Dawn Lehman, Laura Lowes, Adolfo Matamoros, Farzad Naeim, Siamak Sattar, Rob Smith
The U.S. consensus standard for seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings, ASCE/SEI 41, establishes provisions for seismic analysis procedures that vary in complexity and fidelity. Although ASCE/SEI 41 provides detailed nonlinear dynamic
Dustin Cook, Andrew Sen, Tarbin Basnet, Hamid Koodiani, Ariel Creagh, Abbie Liel, Russell Berkowitz, Wassim Ghannoum, Ayse Hortacsu, Insung Kim, Dawn Lehman, Laura Lowes, Adolfo Matamoros, Farzad Naeim, Siamak Sattar, Rob Smith
ASCE/SEI 41 is the consensus U.S. standard for the seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings. Although the performance-based engineering standard is based on decades of research and the result of significant vetting by ASCE and other committees
Brian O'Connor, Karah Osburn, Jennifer Mitchell, Heidi Szabo, Marc Levitan
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide a brief overview of building envelope considerations and load path improvements to reduce damages to wood framed, one- and two-family residential structures when subjected to tornadoes rated on the Enhanced
Aging buildings and ever evolving design codes imply the need of implementing retrofit techniques to ensure the safety and functionality buildings under current operating loads as well as extreme hazard events. Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are
Christopher Segura, Siamak Sattar, Mohammadamin Hariri Ardebili
In seismic performance evaluations, the force-deformation response of a structure is typically assessed using a deterministic analytical model, and inherent uncertainty is often neglected. For reinforced concrete structures, a source of uncertainty is
Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar, Christopher Segura, Steven McCabe
The magnitude 7.1 Cook Inlet Earthquake of November 2018 greatly affected Anchorage, AK area residents. Although shaking likely did not exceed the hazard level for which most newer buildings are designed, disruption to normal operations was significant due
Codes and standards developing organizations, such as American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and American Concrete Institute (ACI), rely on experimental data to develop modeling parameters and acceptance criteria to be used in performance-based seismic
Inherent variability in the mechanical properties of reinforcing steel and concrete introduces uncertainty into the seismic assessment of reinforced concrete structures. To quantify the impact of material uncertainty, one-hundred variations of a numerical
Lucas A. Laughery, Aishwarya Y. Puranam, Christopher Segura, Anahid A. Behrouzi
ACI Committee 133 Disaster Reconnaissance was established with the mission of reporting on the effects of major disasters on reinforced concrete (RC) structures. ACI 133 members monitor natural and manmade disasters worldwide to identify events that affect