Civil engineering Risk assessment of building inventories exposed to large scale natural hazards GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Bruce R. Ellingwood VitoontusSoravitEarthquakes, among the most devastating and unpredictable of natural hazards that affect civil infrastructure, have the potential for causing ...
Analysis of the weightiness of site effects on reinforced concrete (RC) building seismic behaviour: The Adra town example (SE Spain) The damage distribution in Adra town (south-eastern Spain) during the 1993 and 1994 Adra earthquakes (5.0 magnitude), that reached a maximum intensity degr... ...
Indeed, Figure 1.3 relates quite closely to how risk functions are organized at many banks and large corporations, where there are often particular functions for market risk, credit risk, etc. Many of these risk functions worked quite independently of one another until an effort to build a more...
Risk transfer:Risk transfer involves passing the risk to a third party. This strategy shifts the risk from the organization onto another party; in many cases, the risk shifts to an insurance company. An example of this is obtaining an insurance policy to cover property damage or personal injury...
An example is Building Information Modelling (BIM). Creating a complete and integrated digital model of a construction project (previously referred to as a “Level 3” BIM model prior to the revamping of BIM language under ISO 19650) would allow testing of the proposed structure to ...
4.2. Adaption of selected robustness assessment methods in the present context This section illustrates the selected methods using a simple example with annual overheating hours (h/a) as the only performance indicator; in Section 4.3, a more realistic case with multiple performance criteria is conside...
1.1. Seismic risk assessment The risk Rb (i.e., the probability to suffer a certain degree of damage within a specific future time period) for a building Eb exposed to a seismic hazard Hi (i.e., an earthquake with a certain probability of occurrence within a certain time period) with ...
One sign that risks are emerging at a rapid pace is that most insurance CROs use early-warning KPIs for a broader set of risks than those deemed material under their Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA). For example, while only 20 percent of insurers consider dat...
The methods based on fuzzy set theory are also widely used in building maintenance DSS systems: they enable the user to capture the imprecise character of building assessment criteria, as well as to take into account expert knowledge on renovations. An example of the use of fuzzy sets to selec...
For example, Edeisy and Cecere (2017) investigated the impact of reduced solar gains on an apartment block in a hot arid climate. A pre-retrofit assessment considered the simulated annual temperature profile, total energy consumption (kWh/yr), cooling load (kWh/yr) and carbon emissions (kg ...