Developing seismic reliability analysis methods for complex infrastructure systems

Evaluate the seismic performance of complex infrastructure systems considering various uncertainties of structural system based on understanding of structural failure mechanism by the earthquake. To do this, it is necessary to estimate the seismic capacity and seismic demand of the structure in a stochastic manner. Therefore, accurately estimation of the seismic capacity and the capacity correlation between related structures as well as develop of the quantification method of the correlation coefficient will be carried out in this research project. By quantifying the seismic capacity correlation that has been excluded in previous research efforts due to the lack of novel methodology and difficulty of nonlinear structural analysis, it is possible to reduce the analysis time of many researchers around the world and make it easier for researchers to incorporate significant effects of the seismic capacity correlation on reliability analysis of complex systems.

Faculty Supervisor:

Oh-Sung Kwon

Student:

Partner:

Seoul National University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

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