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    • A drift-correlated ground motion intensity measure: application to steel frame buildings 

      Pinzón Ureña, Luis; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Díaz Carrasco, Sergio (Elsevier, 2020-05)
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      Estimations of seismic risk in urban areas should include quantifications of the expected damage to civil structures subjected to earthquakes. In buildings, this quantification depends on the maximum inter-story drift ...

    • A laboratory test aimed at demonstrating the potential of an Interferometric Radar to estimate the Seismic Risk of damaged buildings 

      Luzi, Guido; Palamá, Riccardo; González Drigo, José Ramón; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Caselles Magallón, Josep Oriol; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (Curran Associates, Inc., 2024)
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      In the last decade, the use of interferometric Real Aperture Radar (RAR) to carry out the survey of static and dynamical behaviour of civil structures, such as bridges, consolidated. In the case of urban buildings, due to ...

    • A simplified approach for including the incidence angle effect in seismic risk assessment 

      Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Silva, Vitor; Vamvatsikos, Dimitrios; Pujades Beneit, Lluís (John Wiley & sons, 2022-01)
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      A simplified procedure is developed to consider the azimuthal orientation of buildings when estimating seismic risk. Two square-plan reinforced concrete building models are considered as a testbed, one with similar and one ...

    • Advanced nonlinear soil-structure interaction model for the seismic analysis of safety-related nuclear structures 

      González Lopez, Jose Manuel; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Rastellini, Fernando G.; Ramírez Machado, Brain Junior; Escudero Torres, Cuauhtemoc; Pujades Beneit, Lluís (2024-12)
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      This article proposes an advanced nonlinear soil-structure interaction methodology, for the seismic analysis of a nuclear structure. To do so, a study is performed on a nuclear reinforced concrete structure considering the ...

    • An alternative approach to consider the effect of seismic directionality 

      Díaz Carrasco, Sergio; Pinzón, Luis A.; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2018-12)
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      Recent researches have proven the importance of considering the seismic directionality effect. The performance of buildings subjected to earthquakes depends on its orientation respect to the seismic actions applied. This ...

    • An efficient method for considering the directionality effect of earthquakes on structures 

      Pinzón Ureña, Luis; Díaz Carrasco, Sergio; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (2021-09)
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      Recent research have proven the importance of considering the directionality effect on the expected seismic damage of structures. However, it demands a high computational effort if the nonlinear dynamic analysis (NLDA) is ...

    • An efficient methodology to estimate probabilistic seismic damage curves 

      Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Hurtado Gómez, Jorge Eduardo (2019-04)
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      The incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) is a powerful methodology that can be easily extended for calculating probabilistic seismic damage curves. These curves are metadata to assess the seismic risk of structures. Although ...

    • Análisis dinámico probabilista de edificios de acero sometidos a sismos de larga duración 

      Díaz Alvarado, Sergio A.; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Hidalgo Leiva, Diego Antonio; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CIMNE, 2018-01)
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      El análisis probabilista del comportamiento sísmico de una estructura requiere cuantificar las incertidumbres de las variables y parámetros involucrados, incluyendo la acción sísmica y las propiedades mecánicas de sus ...

    • Análisis estático y dinámico incremental de edificios de hormigón armado 

      Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Hurtado Gomez, Jorge Eduardo (Copicentro, 2011)
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      In the assessment of the seismic hazard of buildings, several methodologies have been proposed based on the capacity curve obtained via Pushover Analysis. On the other hand, the Incremental Dynamic Analysis is a powerful ...

    • Análisis estructural estático y dinámico probabilista de edificios de hormigón armado. Aspectos metodológicos y aplicaciones a la evaluación del daño. 

      Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-07-09)
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      Esta tesis propone una metodología de evaluación del daño sísmico basada en el método del espectro de capacidad pero con un enfoque probabilista que se apoya en simulaciones Monte Carlo. Así la acción sísmica, la estructura ...

    • Assessment of post-earthquake damaged building with interferometric real aperture radar 

      González Drigo, José Ramón; Cabrera Velez, Esteban; Luzi, Guido; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Ávila Haro, Jorge Arturo (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-12-01)
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      In this study the main results of a detailed analysis of an actual building, which was severely damaged during the Mw 5.1, May 11th 2011, Lorca earthquake (Murcia, Spain) are presented. The dynamic behavior of the building ...

    • Capacity curve based damage index for steel buildings: a probabilistic approach 

      Díaz-Alvarado, S.A.; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Hidalgo-Leiva, D.A.; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (2016)
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      The capacity and expected seismic damage of several types of steel buildings are assessed by using a probabilistic approach. Nonlinear static and dynamic analyses are performed by means of Monte Carlo Simulations. Concerning ...

    • Capacity, damage and fragility models for steel buildings: a probabilistic approach 

      Díaz-Alvarado, S.A.; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Hidalgo Leiva, D.A.; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe (2018-03)
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      Recently proposed capacity-based damage indices and parametric models for capacity curves are applied to frame steel buildings located in soft soils of the Mexico City. To do that, the seismic performance of 2D models of ...

    • Capacity, fragility and damage in reinforced concrete buildings: a probabilistic approach 

      Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Hurtado Gómez, Jorge Eduardo (2013-12)
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      The main goals of this article are to analyze the use of simplified deterministic nonlinear static procedures for assessing the seismic response of buildings and to evaluate the influence that the uncertainties in the ...

    • Characterization of free-field seismic motions for soil-structure interaction analysis of nuclear structures using enhanced transfer functions 

      Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Pinzón Ureña, Luis; González Lopez, Jose Manuel; Ramírez Machado, Brain Junior; Rastellini, Fernando G. (Elsevier, 2024-04)
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      Soil-structure interaction is a key aspect when calculating the dynamic response of nuclear structures in front of ground motions induced by earthquakes. However, modelling the seismic response in the time-domain using ...

    • Comparación probabilista entre el análisis estático y dinámico incremental de edificios de hormigón armado 

      Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Hurtado Gomez, Jorge Eduardo (2011)
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      En la evaluación del riesgo sísmico de edificios, se han propuesto varias metodologías derivadas de la curva de capacidad obtenida por medio del análisis estático no lineal de carga incremental o análisis pushover. Por ...

    • Damage Index for structures with elements of high flexural stiffness and/or brittle behavior 

      Hidalgo Leiva, Diego Antonio; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Díaz, Sergio Alberto; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Pinzón Ureña, Luis (2018)
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      Structures with high lateral stiffness and/or with brittle to semi-brittle elements in their lateral resistant system may exhibit a rapid decrease of their shear capacity and a sudden loss of stiffness when lateral cyclic ...

    • Efficiency of intensity measures considering near- and far-fault ground motion records 

      Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Hurtado Gómez, Jorge Eduardo (2021-06)
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      This paper focuses on the identification of high-efficiency intensity measures to predict the seismic response of buildings affected by near- and far-fault ground motion records. Near-fault ground motion has received special ...

    • Energy damage index based on capacity and response spectra 

      Díaz Alvarado, Sergio Alberto; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Barbat Barbat, Horia Alejandro; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Hidalgo Leiva, D.A. (Elsevier, 2017-12)
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      Non-linear dynamic analysis and the damage index of Park-Ang have been often used to assess expected seismic damage to a structure. Depending on the size of the structure and the duration of the record, the computational ...

    • Energy-related parameters and structural damage in nonlinear dynamic analysis 

      Alva Bañuelos, Rodrigo Esteban; González Drigo, José Ramón; Ávila Haro, Jorge Arturo; Vargas Alzate, Yeudy Felipe; Pujades Beneit, Lluís; Pinzón Ureña, Luis (2022)
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      Non Linear Dynamic Analysis (NLDA) is increasing its popularity not only for research but also for the Performance-Based Design (PBD) and analysis of actual buildings. The standards and codes offer guidance and minimum ...