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Seismic Performance Assessment Of Building Contents: Monetary Losses And Injuries, Sereen Majdalaweyh
Seismic Performance Assessment Of Building Contents: Monetary Losses And Injuries, Sereen Majdalaweyh
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Building contents include all the components that are not attached to the building which the owners place after the construction phase, such as furniture, electrical equipment, glassware, and other personal items. Loss and damage assessment of building contents proved to be challenging in performance-based earthquake engineering frameworks because of the data sparsity. Damages to building contents during an earthquake not only cause monetary losses; tumbling and over-toppling of heavy building contents could result in injuries and even deaths of occupants. While major advancements have been made in performance-based earthquake engineering; however, the focus is mainly on damages and collapse risk …
A Probabilistic Casualty Model To Include Injury Severity Levels In Seismic Risk Assessment, Weichiang Pang, S. Majdalaweyh, A. Safiey, K. Rokneddin, S. Prabhu, M. Javanbarg, E. Ziaei
A Probabilistic Casualty Model To Include Injury Severity Levels In Seismic Risk Assessment, Weichiang Pang, S. Majdalaweyh, A. Safiey, K. Rokneddin, S. Prabhu, M. Javanbarg, E. Ziaei
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Despite the increasing adoption of Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) in seismic risk assessment and design of buildings, earthquakes resulted in around 1.8 million injuries (three times the number of fatalities) over the past two decades. Several existing PBEE-based methodologies use rudimentary models that may not accurately estimate earthquake-induced casualties. Even when models are suitable for predicting the total number of fatalities and critical injuries, they may fail to adequately differentiate between different levels of injury severity. This paper draws attention to the importance of extending the seismic casualty assessment method by broadening the perspective on injury severity. To this cause, …