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Infographic on Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Performance

January 3, 2025
Author(s)
Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook, Sandesh Aher
This research brief provides a research summary and research advancement details for the functional recovery post-earthquake performance objective being advanced by NIST's Engineering Laboratory. A current update on the status of functional recovery

Systematic Review of Embodied Carbon Assessment and Reduction in Building Life Cycles

September 18, 2024
Author(s)
Yating Zhang, Siamak Sattar, Dustin Cook, Katherine Johnson, Juan Fung
The building and construction sector is the largest carbon emitter, accounting for more than one-third of annual global emissions. The emissions can be divided into operational and embodied carbon, associated with building operations and building materials

Construction Quality and Assurance for Functional Recovery Design

September 6, 2024
Author(s)
Jakub Valigura, Dustin Cook, Siamak Sattar
As part of the ACI 374A Subcommittee on Design of Reinforced Concrete Structure for Functional Recovery, the authors held six expert panel discussions with experts in various aspects of building design and construction. The goal of the discussions was to

Functional Recovery in Modern Reinforced Concrete Buildings

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Dustin Cook, ABBIE LIEL, Amir Safiey
In the field of structural engineering, functional recovery is a new, but non-standardized building design objective intended to improve a building's capacity to maintain or rapidly restore basic intended functions after a hazard event, such as an

A model for partially dependent component damage fragilities in seismic risk analysis

October 31, 2023
Author(s)
Jack Baker, Edward Almeter, Dustin Cook, ABBIE LIEL, Curt Haselton
This paper proposes a model to quantify dependencies in component damage in the FEMA P-58 seismic performance assessment methodology, and to simulate damage realizations with the desired dependencies. The model is compatible with the prior FEMA P-58

Assessing the Feasibility of Achieving Functional Recovery Goals through Seismic Retrofit of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings

September 23, 2023
Author(s)
Negar Mohammadgholibeyki, Maria Jose Echeverria, Amir Safiey, Dustin Cook, Maria Koliou, ABBIE LIEL
Damage from past earthquakes has significantly impeded post-earthquake building function, threatening community resilience, and motivating consideration of functional recovery in building design and assessment. This study examines whether it is feasible to

ASCE/SEI 41 Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings: Comparison of the Nonlinear Dynamic Procedure with Other Evaluation Methods

May 22, 2023
Author(s)
Andrew Sen, Dustin Cook, ABBIE LIEL, Tarbin Basnet, Russell Berkowitz, Ariel Creagh, Wassim Ghannoum, Ayse Hortacsu, Insung Kim, Hamid Koodiani, Dawn Lehman, Laura Lowes, Adolfo Matamoros, Farzad Naeim, Siamak Sattar, Rob Smith
The U.S. consensus standard for seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings, ASCE/SEI 41, establishes provisions for seismic analysis procedures that vary in complexity and fidelity. Although ASCE/SEI 41 provides detailed nonlinear dynamic

ASCE/SEI 41 Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings: Benchmarking ASCE/SEI 41 Nonlinear Dynamic Procedures with Empirical Damage Observations

May 19, 2023
Author(s)
Dustin Cook, Andrew Sen, Tarbin Basnet, Hamid Koodiani, Ariel Creagh, Abbie Liel, Russell Berkowitz, Wassim Ghannoum, Ayse Hortacsu, Insung Kim, Dawn Lehman, Laura Lowes, Adolfo Matamoros, Farzad Naeim, Siamak Sattar, Rob Smith
ASCE/SEI 41 is the consensus U.S. standard for the seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings. Although the performance-based engineering standard is based on decades of research and the result of significant vetting by ASCE and other committees

The Impact of Nonstructural Damage on Building Function

December 7, 2022
Author(s)
Dustin Cook, Siamak Sattar
To reduce the impacts of disasters on communities, recent initiatives have focused on improving the performance of the building stock by designing for limited damage and downtime. Through these initiatives, researchers and engineers have highlighted the

A Framework to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of Recovery-Based Design

May 24, 2022
Author(s)
Juan Fung, Yating Zhang, Katherine Johnson, Dustin Cook, Siamak Sattar
Modern building codes and standards are generally focused on safeguarding public health and safety by ensuring buildings meet life safety performance objectives following an earthquake event. Certain classes of buildings, such as hospitals and schools, may

Economic considerations for recovery-based design

September 20, 2020
Author(s)
Juan Fung, Dustin Cook, Yating Zhang, Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar
Current building design practice targets life safety performance for the design-level earthquake. While some buildings (e.g., schools, hospitals) may be designed for higher performance, the actual performance of most residential and commercial buildings