Fragility Functions; Fire; Vulnerability Assessment; Urban Resilience; Fire Following Earthquake; Ignition; Probabilistic Model; Steel Building
Abstract :
[en] This work provides a framework to evaluate the response of buildings in a community to fire following earthquake. As part of the framework, the paper discusses two methodologies: (1) how to develop fire fragility functions; (2) how the fire fragility functions can be used in conjunction with an original fire ignition model to estimate the potential losses in a community from fire following earthquake. The paper focuses in particular on the development of fire fragility functions for an entire building to measure the probability of reaching a damage state given a fire scenario. Next, the paper proposes an ignition model to evaluate the probability of fire ignition after an earthquake. The ignition model together with fragility functions measure the probability of damage from fire following earthquake given an earthquake scenario.
Disciplines :
Civil engineering
Author, co-author :
Elhami Khorasani, Negar; University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Gernay, Thomas ; Université de Liège > Département ArGEnCo > Ingénierie du feu
Garlock, Maria; Princeton University, NJ, USA
Language :
English
Title :
Fire fragility functions for community resilience assessment
Publication date :
10 June 2016
Event name :
9th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF 2016)
Event organizer :
Princeton University
Event place :
Princeton, United States
Event date :
8-10 June 2016
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Structures in Fire (Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference)
Author, co-author :
Garlock, Maria
Kodur, Venkatesh
Publisher :
DEStech Publications, Inc., Lancaster, PA, United States
ISBN/EAN :
978-1-60595-320-5
Pages :
909-916
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Funders :
Fulbright Commission BAEF - Belgian American Educational Foundation
