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Raines ; in cooperation with the Brazos River AuthorityAustin, Texas :U.S. Geological Survey,1998.1 online resource (iv, 42 pages) illustrations, maps +1 plateWater-resources investigations report ;98-4178Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23).Stream measurementsTexasBrazos River WatershedStreamflowTexasBrazos River WatershedStream measurementsfastStreamflowfastTexasBrazos River WatershedfastStream measurementsStreamflowStream measurements.Streamflow.Raines Timothy H.1392701Geological Survey (U.S.),Brazos River Authority.OCLCEOCLCEOCLCQOCLCFOCLCQOCLCOOCLCQCOPGPOBOOK9910716711403321Peak-discharge frequency and potential extreme peak discharge for natural streams in the Brazos River basin, Texas3472529UNINA11789nam 22006373 450 991100718730332120231122080223.097807844850570784485054(MiAaPQ)EBC30957605(Au-PeEL)EBL30957605(CKB)29013285500041(Exl-AI)30957605(OCoLC)1410591503(EXLCZ)992901328550004120231122d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierResilient and Sustainable Buildings1st ed.Reston :American Society of Civil Engineers,2023.©2023.1 online resource (261 pages)Infrastructure Resilience Publication ;v.7Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Layout of This Book -- Chapter 1 : A Risk-Informed Decision Framework to Achieve Resilient and Sustainable Buildings That Meet Community Objectives -- 1.1   Introduction -- 1.1.1   The Building Regulatory Process in the United States -- 1.1.2   Building Performance Objectives -- 1.1.3   Community Performance Objectives and Metrics -- 1.1.4   Community Resilience versus Individual Building Performance-De-aggregation of Community Goals -- 1.2   Methodology/Framework/Approach Used in the Project -- 1.2.1   Project Objectives -- 1.2.2   The Importance of Interdependencies in Resilience Assessment -- 1.2.3   Balance between Sustainability and Resilience -- 1.2.4   Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability and Resilience -- 1.2.5   Role of Fragility Functions in Performance Assessment -- 1.2.6   Role of Scenario-Based Hazard Analysis -- 1.2.7   De-aggregation of Community Goals to the Building Performance Level -- 1.2.8   Building Back Better to Enhance Community Resilience -- 1.3   Detailed Methods, Approaches-Hazards, Building Systems -- 1.3.1   Development of Fragility Functions -- 1.3.2   Life-Cycle Analysis for Residential Buildings -- 1.3.2.1   Total Life-Cycle Cost -- 1.3.2.2   Regular Repair/Maintenance Cost -- 1.3.2.3   Expected Damage Repair Cost -- 1.3.2.4   Assessment of Life-Cycle Carbon Footprint -- 1.3.3   Community Resilience Assessment Framework -- 1.3.4   De-aggregation of Community Goals to the Building Performance Level -- 1.4   Application/Example/Case Study -- 1.4.1   Life-Cycle Analysis at Individual Building and Community Levels -- 1.4.1.1   Illustration of Life-Cycle Analysis of a Single-Family Residential Building -- 1.4.1.2   Illustration of Life-Cycle Analysis for an Ensemble of Residential Buildings.1.4.2   Interdependencies and Resilience at a Community Level -- 1.4.3   De-aggregation of Community Goals to the Building Performance Level -- 1.5   Project Conclusions, Lessons Learned -- References -- Chapter 2 : Building Design and Decision-Making for Multihazard Resilience and Sustainability -- 2.1   Introduction and Scope -- 2.1.1   General -- 2.1.2   Research Significance -- 2.1.3   Background and Literature Review -- 2.2   Design Framework -- 2.2.1   Natural Hazard Characterization -- 2.2.1.1   Seismic Hazard -- 2.2.1.2   Joint Wind and Flood Hazards -- 2.2.1.3   Nonstationarities of Wind and Flood hazards -- 2.2.2   Modeling of Fragility and Damage to Building Components -- 2.2.2.1   Seismic Damage -- 2.2.2.2   Wind Damage -- 2.2.2.3   Flood Damage -- 2.2.3   Building Resilience and Sustainability Assessment -- 2.2.3.1   Building Resilience -- 2.2.3.2   Building Sustainability -- 2.2.4   Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making -- 2.3   Methodology -- 2.3.1   Natural Hazard Characterization -- 2.3.1.1   Seismic Hazard and Ground Motions -- 2.3.1.2   Ground Motion Demand for Seismic Performance Evaluation -- 2.3.1.3   Joint Probability of Wind and Flood Hazards -- 2.3.1.4   Nonstationary Coastal Wind and Flood Hazard Analyses -- 2.3.2  Modeling of Building Damage and Identifying Fragility and Probability of Failure -- 2.3.2.1   Seismic Damage -- 2.3.2.2   Wind Damage -- 2.3.2.3   Flood Damage -- 2.3.2.4   Probability of Failure -- 2.3.3   Building Resilience and Sustainability -- 2.3.3.1   Building Resilience -- 2.3.3.2   Building Sustainability -- 2.3.4   Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making -- 2.3.4.1   Multiobjective Optimization -- 2.3.4.2   Decision-Making: Final Design Selection -- 2.3.5   Decision-Makers' Preference Weights for Building Sustainability and Resilience Criteria -- 2.3.5.1   Final Design Selection.2.4   Applications and Examples -- 2.4.1  Resilience-Based Multihazard Performance Evaluation of Buildings Designed to Current Codes -- 2.4.1.1   Envelope and Roof Covering Systems -- 2.4.1.2   Seismic Fragility -- 2.4.1.3   Wind Fragility for Roof Cover Damage -- 2.4.1.4   Seismic Probability of Failure -- 2.4.1.5   Wind Probability of Failure -- 2.4.2   Joint Probability of Wind and Flood Hazards for Boston -- 2.4.2.1   Empirical and Fitted Distributions of Wind and Flood Hazard Intensity Measures -- 2.4.2.2   Copula -- 2.4.2.3   Joint Hazard Curves and Envelopes -- 2.4.3   Nonstationary Coastal Wind and Flood Hazard Analyses for Boston and Miami -- 2.4.3.1   Comparison between Stationary and Nonstationary Probability Distributions -- 2.4.3.2   Coastal Wind and Flood Hazard Curves -- 2.4.4   Building Life Span Flood Damage Evaluation for Boston and Miami -- 2.4.5   Future Building Energy Simulations for San Francisco, Boston, and Miami -- 2.4.6   Effect of Envelope Window-to-Wall Ratio on Measured Energy Consumption -- 2.4.7   Optimal Building Designs and Implications for Building Codes -- 2.4.7.1   3D Moment Frame Structure -- 2.4.7.2   3D Moment Frame Structure with Structural Walls -- 2.5   Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 : A Sequential Decision Framework to Support Tradespace Exploration of Multihazard Resilient and Sustainable Designs -- 3.1   Introduction -- 3.2   Methodology -- 3.2.1   Design as a Sequential Decision Process -- 3.2.2   Bounding Model -- 3.2.3   Interval Dominance -- 3.2.4   Sequencing of Multifidelity Models -- 3.3   Detailed Methodologies -- 3.3.1  Multiobjective Design Optimization of Structural Frame Systems: Deterministic Decision Criteria -- 3.3.1.1   Bounding Models for the Capacity Spectrum Method -- 3.3.1.2   Interval Dominance in the Capacity Spectrum Method.3.3.2   Multiobjective Design Optimization of Structural-Foundation-Soil Systems: Deterministic Decision Criteria -- 3.3.2.1   Leveraging Monotonicity and Concavity to Construct Bounding Models -- 3.3.2.2   Dimensionality Reduction through Systematic Deferring of Subsets or Design Variables -- 3.3.3   Multiobjective Design Optimization of a Structural Frame System: Probabilistic Decision Criteria -- 3.3.3.1   Performance Comparison Based on the Precise Values of Decision Criteria -- 3.3.3.2   Development of Bounding Models -- 3.3.3.3   Sequential Decision Process with Probabilistic Decision Criteria -- 3.3.3.4   Illustrative Example -- 3.3.4   Integration of Environmental Impacts and Seismic Damage -- 3.3.4.1   Integrating the Seismic Hazard and Environmental Performance Assessment of Building Designs -- 3.3.4.2   Illustrative Example -- 3.3.5   Optimal Sequencing of Multifidelity Model Evaluation of Design Space -- 3.3.5.1   Problem Formulation as a Finite Markov Decision Process -- 3.3.5.2   Solving the Design Sequential Decision Process by Reinforcement Learning -- 3.4   Applications -- 3.4.1   Multiobjective Design Optimization of Structural Frame Systems: Deterministic Decision Criteria -- 3.4.1.1   Problem Statement: Design Objectives, Variables, and Constraints -- 3.4.1.2   Description of Model, Analysis Method, and Multifidelity Parameters -- 3.4.1.3   Results -- 3.4.2   Multiobjective Design Optimization of Structural-Foundation-Soil Systems: Deterministic Decision Criteria -- 3.4.2.1   Problem Statement: Design Objectives, Variables, and Constraints -- 3.4.2.2   Description of Model, Analysis Method, and Multifidelity Parameters -- 3.4.2.3   Results -- 3.4.3  Multiobjective Design Optimization of a Structural Frame System: Probabilistic Decision Criteria -- 3.4.3.1   Problem Statement: Design Objectives, Variables, and Constraints.3.4.3.2   Overview of the Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Framework -- 3.4.3.3   Convergence of Monte Carlo Simulation -- 3.4.3.4   Results -- 3.4.4   Optimal Sequencing of Multifidelity Model Evaluation of Design Space -- 3.4.4.1   Problem Statement: Design Objectives, Variables, and Constraints -- 3.4.4.2   Results -- 3.4.4.3   Comparison with the Optimal Sequence in the Sequential Decision Process Methodology -- 3.5   Project Conclusions and Findings -- References -- Chapter 4 : A Reliability-Based Decision Support System for Resilient and Sustainable Early Design -- 4.1   Introduction -- 4.2   Methodology -- 4.2.1   Prerequisite: Problem Definition -- 4.2.2   Framework Objectives and Value -- 4.2.3   Framework Overview -- 4.3   Description of Modules and Developed Tools -- 4.3.1   Decision Framing with SIMPLE-Design -- 4.3.2   Open Performance Data Inventories -- 4.3.2.1   INventory of Seismic Structural Evaluation, Performance Functions, and Taxonomies -- 4.3.2.2   Multihazard Vulnerability Database -- 4.3.2.3   Archetype Soil, Foundation, Lateral-Resisting Structural, and Envelope Systems -- 4.3.2.4   Environmental Impact Data -- 4.3.3   Soil, Foundation, Lateral-Resisting Structural, and Envelope System Generator Module -- 4.3.4   Module 2: Probabilistic Life-Cycle Performance Assessment -- 4.3.4.1   Performance-Based Early Design -- 4.3.4.2   Available Routes for Performance-Based Early Design -- 4.3.5   Module 3: Preference-Based Multiobjective Ranking and Optimization -- 4.4   Illustrative Example -- 4.4.1   Building and Site -- 4.4.2   Decision-Makers, Framing, and Metrics -- 4.4.3   Application of the M1 Module to Generate Soil, Foundation, Lateral-Resisting Structural, and Envelope Systems -- 4.4.3.1   Definition of Initial Design Space.4.4.3.2   Preliminary Ranking and Selection of Feasible Soil, Foundation, Lateral-Resisting Structural, and Envelope Configurations.This book provides a high-level overview of the methods and outcomes of four major projects funded by the National Science Foundation that focuses on different aspects of resilient and sustainable buildings (RSB), ranging from a single building to a full community.Infrastructure Resilience PublicationSustainable buildingsGenerated by AICivil engineeringGenerated by AISustainable buildingsCivil engineeringEllingwood Bruce R1387771Mahmoud Hussam1825256Joyner 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