Emil Simiu,Adam L Pintar,Dat Duthinh et al. Emil Simiu et al.

A 2004 Skidmore Owings and Merrill report (in Simiu E. (2011) Design of Buildings for Wind, Appendix 5, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ) notes that the ASCE 7 Standard (American Society of Civil Engineers (2002) ASCE 7-02, Reston, Va) is incomplete inso...

Stanley Gilbert,Bilal M Ayyub Stanley Gilbert

Estimating the economic burden of disasters requires appropriate models that account for key characteristics and decision making needs. Natural disasters in 2011 resulted in $366 billion in direct damages and 29,782 fatalities worldwide. Av...