Telecommunication structures are essential components of communication and post-disaster networks that must remain operational after a design-level of earthquake. Although many studies have been done to evaluate the response of these structures when subjected to wind and earthquakes, almost all…

Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering necessitates the development of simulation models that can predict the nonlinear behavior of structural components as part of a building subjected to seismic loading. For reliable seismic assessment of buildings, these models need to be calibrated with…

The goal of this study is to examine the possibility of reducing the epistemic uncertainties in seismic vulnerability estimation methods, particularly when properties of simplified models utilized in these methods are fitted to those obtained, for example, from Ambient Vibration…