Professor Božidar Stojadinović, Ph.D., Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, presents a supply/demand approach to modeling the resilience of a civil infrastructure system that involves component vulnerability and recovery functions and a model of system operation.
In this presentation, Prof. Stojadinović evaluates the seismic resilience of the electrical power supply system in Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. He presents two classes of resilience measures, examines how to evaluate them...
On the two month anniversary of the April 16, 2016 Ecuador Earthquake, PEER hosted a seminar about Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Observations.
In this lecture, Professor Armen Der Kiureghian will provide an overview of the development of the tail-equivalent linearization method for stochastic dynamic analysis of inelastic structures subjected to earthquake ground motions. The method, which is based on the principles of the first-order reliability method (FORM), is described in terms of geometry in the high-dimensional space of Gaussian random...