University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Vulnerability Function Framework for Consequence-based Engineering

Wen, Y.K.; Ellingwood, Bruce Russell; Bracci, Joseph M.

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Report 04-04.pdf

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/9177

Description

Title
  • Vulnerability Function Framework for Consequence-based Engineering
  • MAE Center Project DS-4 Report
Author(s)
  • Wen, Y.K.
  • Ellingwood, Bruce Russell
  • Bracci, Joseph M.
Issue Date
2004-04-28
Keyword(s)
  • Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center
  • Consequence-Based Engineering
  • Vulnerability
Date of Ingest
2008-12-02T17:52:04Z
Abstract
Consequence-based engineering is a new paradigm for seismic risk reduction across regions or interconnected systems (Abrams, 2002). In CBE, the risk to a distributed infrastructure systems is quantified, evaluated and managed through an assessment and selective intervention process aimed at selected components of that system. This process enables the benefits of alternate seismic risk mitigation strategies to be assessed in terms of their impact on the performance of the built environment during a spectrum of earthquake hazards and on the affected population. It is clear that components and systems that are dominant contributors to risk should receive the focus of attention in the assessment process underlying CBE. These dominant contributors can be identified through the formalism of a probabilistic safety assessment, or PSA.
Publisher
University of Illinois
Series/Report Name or Number
MAE Center Report 04-04
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Report (Grant or Annual)
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/9177
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
NSF EEC-9701785

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Research and Publications - Mid-America Earthquake Center PRIMARY