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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), ...