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dc.contributor.authorKeremidis, Kostas
dc.contributor.authorAbdolhosseini Qomi, Mohammad Javad
dc.contributor.authorPellenq, Roland
dc.contributor.authorUlm, Franz-Josef
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-02T14:56:53Z
dc.date.available2021-03-02T14:56:53Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130027
dc.description.abstractBetween 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), with a potential rise to $38 billion by 2075 – 55% of which is attributed to coastal development (2). This economic impact of wind related events calls for reevaluation of engineering approaches. Traditional structural mechanics approaches evaluate wind damage of structural elements (i.e. beams, plates, walls) in relation to a design code, while not accounting for the contribution of non-ˇstructural elements (i.e. sheathings, windows) which clearly reflect on building integrity (3). While more detailed frameworks accounting for all elements do exist, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s HAZUS-ˇMH (FEMA 2016), they are only limited to specific building types and qualitative damage description (i.e. slight, moderate, extensive damage, and so on) (4). This motivates the development of an approach that can quantitatively address the complexity of buildings in element scale (i.e. structural/non-ˇstructural elements), and system scale (accounting for any building use and geometry).en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMIT CSHub Research Brief; Volume 2018, Issue 6en_US
dc.subjectResilienceen_US
dc.subjectStructural Mechanicsen_US
dc.subjectStructural Engineeringen_US
dc.subjectClimate Changeen_US
dc.titleResearch Brief: A Resilience Assessment of Structures Using Molecular Dynamicsen_US


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