Development of Empirical Fragility Curves in Earthquake Engineering considering Nonspecific Damage Information
As a function of fragility curves in earthquake engineering, the assessment of the probability of exceeding a specific damage state according to the magnitude of earthquake can be considered. Considering that the damage states for fragility curves are generally nested to each other, the possibility...
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| description | As a function of fragility curves in earthquake engineering, the assessment of the probability of exceeding a specific damage state according to the magnitude of earthquake can be considered. Considering that the damage states for fragility curves are generally nested to each other, the possibility theory, a special form of the evidence theory for nested intervals, is applied to generate fragility information from seismic damage data. While the lognormal distributions are conventionally used to generate fragility curves due to their simplicity and applicability, the methodology to use the possibility theory does not require the assumption of distributions. Seismic damage data classified by four damage levels were used for a case study. The resulted possibility-based fragility information expressed by two monotone measures, “possibility” and “certainty,” are compared with the conventional fragility curves based on probability. The results showed that the conventional fragility curves provide a conservative estimation at the relatively high earthquake magnitude compared with the possibility-based fragility information. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5d55bd61727041e29d83b04598791f802025-02-03T01:23:21ZengWileyAdvances in Civil Engineering1687-80861687-80942018-01-01201810.1155/2018/62091376209137Development of Empirical Fragility Curves in Earthquake Engineering considering Nonspecific Damage InformationJung J. Kim0Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Kyungnam University, Changwon-si 51767, Republic of KoreaAs a function of fragility curves in earthquake engineering, the assessment of the probability of exceeding a specific damage state according to the magnitude of earthquake can be considered. Considering that the damage states for fragility curves are generally nested to each other, the possibility theory, a special form of the evidence theory for nested intervals, is applied to generate fragility information from seismic damage data. While the lognormal distributions are conventionally used to generate fragility curves due to their simplicity and applicability, the methodology to use the possibility theory does not require the assumption of distributions. Seismic damage data classified by four damage levels were used for a case study. The resulted possibility-based fragility information expressed by two monotone measures, “possibility” and “certainty,” are compared with the conventional fragility curves based on probability. The results showed that the conventional fragility curves provide a conservative estimation at the relatively high earthquake magnitude compared with the possibility-based fragility information.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6209137 |
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| title | Development of Empirical Fragility Curves in Earthquake Engineering considering Nonspecific Damage Information |
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| title_short | Development of Empirical Fragility Curves in Earthquake Engineering considering Nonspecific Damage Information |
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