A Framework and Tool for Knowledge-Based Seismic Risk Assessment of School Buildings: SLaMA-School

When dealing with seismic risk assessment at a large scale, the collection of relevant building data is still deemed a challenging task, often leading to limited building knowledge and, consequently, high uncertainties. Therefore, innovative yet standardized frameworks and adaptive tools are needed to support the seismic risk assessment of...

Induced seismicity red-light thresholds for enhanced geothermal prospects in the Netherlands

Prospects for geothermal energy in the Netherlands have renewed concerns around induced earthquakes. Risks from induced earthquakes are managed by traffic light protocols (TLPs), where the red-light is chosen as the stop-point before exceeding a tolerance to risk. Here, we simulate post-shut-in earthquake scenarios based on realistic...

Stochastic renewal process models for estimation of damage cost over the life-cycle of a structure

In the life-cycle cost analysis of a structure, the total cost of damage caused by external hazards like earthquakes, wind storms and flood is an important but highly uncertain component. In the literature, the expected damage cost is typically analyzed under the assumption of either the homogeneous Poisson process or the renewal process in...

Estimation of Probable Maximum Loss Index of Water Supply System

The numerous major earthquakes in Japan, such as the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake, Tohoku Regional Pacific Coast earthquake caused substantial casualties and property damages. Private companies/public utility enterprises should provide disaster reduction investment as part of risk management and prepare a strategic Business Continuity Plan....

Seismic Risk Management of a Canal System Model

This paper proposes a seismic risk management scheme for long continuous geotechnical structure, such as road embankment, water canal and so on. In this scheme, the continuous variation of responses, the failure probability and the risk, 50m intervals for instance, of the structure can be estimated with using response surface method. The detail...

Towards a Swiss national Earthquake Risk model: Sensitivity and gap analysis

Switzerland is exposed to earthquakes and has a high vulnerability and high losses endangered. The available seismic risk models are not sufficient and therefore the development has to go towards a new Swiss national seismic risk model. The model developed is an end-to-end calculation from the initial hazard to the final loss. It contains a...