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Investigating Firebrand Accumulation over Various Scales

November 22, 2016
Author(s)
Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
As structures are exposed to wind, stagnation planes are produced around structures. Using full-scale experiments, the authors demonstrated that firebrands may accumulate in these stagnation planes. In a subsequent full-scale study performed by the authors

Guide Brief 1 - Characterize the Population

September 30, 2016
Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides additional rationale and guidance regarding the first part of Step 2 in the Guide, “Characterize social functions and dependencies” which starts with “Characterize the population.” The intended audience is the social dimensions

Reliability-based structural performance indicators for structural members

June 2, 2016
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, Michel Ghosn, Dan Frangopol, Mahendra Shah, Sophia Diniz, Bruce Ellingwood, Lance Manuel, Fabio Biondini, N. Catbas, A. Strauss, Z. Zhao
The implementation of reliability methods for designing new structures and assessing the safety and evaluating the performance of existing structures and infrastructure systems has gained widespread acceptance. Most importantly, reliability-based design

Risk-based decision making for sustainable and resilient infrastructure

June 2, 2016
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, Zoubir Lounis
The development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems is a challenging task that involves a broad range of economic, social and environmental performance indicators, which need to be considered over the system life cycle. Conventional

Economics of Community Disaster Resilience Workshop Proceedings

March 1, 2016
Author(s)
Bilal Ayyub, Robert E. Chapman, Gearald Galloway, Richard Wright
This report documents the effort launched by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop, organize, and convene a workshop on the economics of community disaster resilience to promote the use of economics for system sustainment and

Firebrand Production from Building Components Fitted with Siding Treatments

February 1, 2016
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
Firebrand production from real-scale building components under well-controlled laboratory conditions was investigated. Re-entrant corner assemblies were ignited and during the combustion process, firebrands were collected to determine the size/mass

COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR MODELING AND ENHANCING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: INTRODUCING THE CENTER FOR RISK-BASED COMMUNITY RESILIENCE PLANNING

December 10, 2015
Author(s)
John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Gardoni Paolo, Daniel Cox, Harvey Cutler, Walter G. Peacock
The resilience of a community is defined as its ability to prepare for, withstand, recover from and adapt to the effects of natural or human-caused disasters, and depends on the performance of the built environment and on supporting social, economic and
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