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Research Brief: A Reaction-Diffusion Model to Determine Mesoscale Patterns in Cement Paste
(2018-08)
Strength and toughness, two important aspects of the durability of concrete structures, are dramatically influenced by the material’s nanotexture, but the question of how the building blocks of cement paste organize ...
Research Brief: Generating Building-specific Fragility Curves
(2019-05)
Fragility curves represent a structure’s likelihood of damage under a range of load levels—like those from natural hazards. They, therefore, help to set building code safety factors, resiliency ratings, and even insurance ...
Research Brief: Creating Customized Fragility Curves for Resilient Building
(2018-11)
Fragility curves, which are a statistical tool that represent the probability of exceeding a certain level of structural damage due to various forces applied to a building, are used to assess anticipated building performance. ...
Research Brief: A Resilience Assessment of Structures Using Molecular Dynamics
(2018-06)
Between 1993-ˇ2012, more than 75% of catastrophic losses in the United States were caused by windstorms
(1). The Congressional Budget Office estimated an average annual damage amounting to $28 billion (0.16 percent of GDP), ...
Research Brief: Prioritizing Resilient Retrofits
(2018-02)
2017 was one of the most devastating U.S. hurricane seasons ever recorded. State Departments of Public Safety across the country list tens of thousands of destroyed homes and hundreds of thousands more damaged. Although ...