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Search Publications by: Therese P. McAllister (Fed)

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THE INTERDEPENDENT NETWORKED COMMUNITY RESILIENCE MODELING ENVIRONMENT (IN-CORE)

June 22, 2018
Author(s)
Paolo Gardoni, John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Jong Lee, Harvey Cutler, Daniel Cox
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded the multi-university five-year Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (CoE), headquartered at Colorado State University, to develop the measurement science to

Determining Mean Recurrence Intervals for Updated Wind Maps in ASCE 7-16

February 16, 2018
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, Naiyu Wang, Bruce Ellingwood
ASCE Standard 7 is moving toward load requirements that are consistent with reliability-based design goals characteristic of performance-based engineering (PBE). As part of this move, reliability analyses were conducted using updated wind data to determine

A Critical Appraisal of Community Resilience Studies: Progress and Challenges

January 8, 2018
Author(s)
Maria Koliou, John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Maria Dillard, Harvey Cutler, Therese P. McAllister
Community resilience, which has been defined as the ability to prepare for and recover from disruptive hazard events, has been addressed across multiple disciplines including environmental sciences, engineering, sociology, psychology and economics

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE OF LIFELINE SYSTEMS: SOCIETAL NEEDS AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

January 13, 2017
Author(s)
Chris Rojahn, Laurie Johnson, Thomas O'Rourke, Veronica Cedillos, Therese P. McAllister
The concept of community resilience is a complex, multi-dimensional problem that relies on social science, engineering, earth sciences, economics, and other disciplines to improve the way communities prepare for, resist, respond to, and recover from

Direct and Cascading Effects of Seismic Events on the Response of Water and Electrical Power Networks

December 22, 2016
Author(s)
Roberto Guidotti, Hana T. Chmielewski, Vipin Unnikrishnan, Gardoni Paolo, Therese P. McAllister, John W. van de Lindt
Water and electrical power networks are critical infrastructure in our communities; their disruption, e.g., due to the occurrence of hazard events, greatly affects communities' well-being, the economic and social response of the entire region and recovery

Reliability-based structural performance indicators for structural members

June 2, 2016
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, Michel Ghosn, Dan Frangopol, Mahendra Shah, Sophia Diniz, Bruce Ellingwood, Lance Manuel, Fabio Biondini, N. Catbas, A. Strauss, Z. Zhao
The implementation of reliability methods for designing new structures and assessing the safety and evaluating the performance of existing structures and infrastructure systems has gained widespread acceptance. Most importantly, reliability-based design

Risk-based decision making for sustainable and resilient infrastructure

June 2, 2016
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister, Zoubir Lounis
The development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems is a challenging task that involves a broad range of economic, social and environmental performance indicators, which need to be considered over the system life cycle. Conventional