TY - CHAP A1 - Rosin, Julia A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Boesen, Niklas A1 - Gellert, Christoph T1 - Evaluation of the Seismic Behavior of a Modern URM Building During the 2012 Northern Italy Earthquakes T2 - 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, 18-21 June, 2018 Y1 - 2018 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rosin, Julia A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Cacciatore, Pamela A1 - Boesen, Niklas T1 - Investigation of the seismic performance of modern masonry buildings during the Emilia Romagna earthquake series T1 - Untersuchungen des seismischen Verhaltens von modernen Mauerwerksbauten während der Erdbebenserie in der Emilia Romagna JF - Mauerwerk N2 - The article presents the investigation of the seismic behaviour of a modern URM building located in the municipality of Finale Emilia in province of Modena, Northern Italy. The building is situated in the centre of the series of the 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes and has not suffered any damage during the earthquake series in 2012. The observed earthquake resistance of the building is compared with predicted resistances based on linear and nonlinear design approaches according to Eurocode. Furthermore, probabilistic analyses based on nonlinear calculation models taking into account scattering of the most relevant input parameters are carried out to identify their influence to the results and to derive fragility curves. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dama.201800013 SN - 1437-1022 VL - 22 IS - 4 SP - 238 EP - 250 PB - Ernst & Sohn CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rosin, Julia A1 - Henneböhl, Benedickt A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Global buckling analysis of cylindrical liquid storage tanks under earthquake loading T2 - 2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology 2014 (2nd ECEES) : joint event of the 15th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and the 34th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission : Istanbul, Turkey, 25-29 August 2014 / European Association for Earthquake Engineering (EAEE) ; Vol. 6 Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-5108-1021-1 SP - 5270 EP - 5281 PB - Curran Associates, Inc. CY - Red Hook, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rosin, Julia A1 - Kubalski, Thomas A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Seismic Design of cylindrical liquid storage tanks T2 - Seismic design of industrial facilities : proceedings of the International Conference on Seismic Design of Industrial Facilities (SeDIF-Conference) ; [Aachen, 26. - 27. September 2013] / Chair of Structural Statics and Dynamics, RWTH Aachen. Sven Klinkel ..., ed. Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-658-02810-7 (E-Book) ; 978-3-658-02809-1 (Print) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02810-7_36 SP - 429 EP - 440 PB - Springer Vieweg CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rosin, Julia A1 - Kubalski, Thomas A1 - Butenweg, Christoph ED - Klinkel, Sven ED - Butenweg, Christoph ED - Lin, Gao ED - Holtschoppen, Britta T1 - Seismic isolation of cylindrical liquid storage tanks T2 - Seismic design of industrial facilities N2 - Seismic excited liquid filled tanks are subjected to extreme loading due to hydrodynamic pressures, which can lead to nonlinear stability failure of the thinwalled cylindrical tanks, as it is known from past earthquakes. A significant reduction of the seismically induced loads can be obtained by the application of base isolation systems, which have to be designed carefully with respect to the modified hydrodynamic behaviour of the tank in interaction with the liquid. For this reason a highly sophisticated fluid-structure interaction model has to be applied for a realistic simulation of the overall dynamic system. In the following, such a model is presented and compared with the results of simplified mathematical models for rigidly supported tanks. Finally, it is examined to what extent a simple mechanical model can represent the behaviour of a base isolated tank in case of seismic excitation Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-658-02810-7 SN - 978-3-658-02809-1 SN - 978-3-658-14037-3 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02810-7_36 N1 - International Conference on Seismic Design of Industrial Facilities, Aachen, Germany, 26.-27.09.2013. https://sedif-conference.jimdofree.com/ SP - 429 EP - 440 PB - Springer Vieweg CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rossi, Leonardo A1 - Holtschoppen, Britta A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Official data on the economic consequences of the 2012 Emilia-Romagna earthquake: a first analysis of database SFINGE JF - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10518-019-00655-8 VL - 17 IS - 9 SP - 4855 EP - 4884 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rossi, Leonardo A1 - Parisi, Davide A1 - Casari, Chiara A1 - Montanari, Luca A1 - Ruggieri, Gabriella A1 - Holtschoppen, Britta A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Empirical Data about Direct Economic Consequences of Emilia-Romagna 2012 Earthquake on Long-Span-Beam Buildings JF - Earthquake Spectra Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/100118EQS224DP SN - 1944-8201 VL - 35 IS - 4 SP - 1979 EP - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rossi, Leonardo A1 - Stupazzini, Marco A1 - Parisi, Davide A1 - Holtschoppen, Britta A1 - Ruggieri, Gabriella A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Empirical fragility functions and loss curves for long-span-beam buildings based on the 2012 Emilia-Romagna earthquake official database JF - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering N2 - The 2012 Emilia-Romagna earthquake, that mainly struck the homonymous Italian region provoking 28 casualties and damage to thousands of structures and infrastructures, is an exceptional source of information to question, investigate, and challenge the validity of seismic fragility functions and loss curves from an empirical standpoint. Among the most recent seismic events taking place in Europe, that of Emilia-Romagna is quite likely one of the best documented, not only in terms of experienced damages, but also for what concerns occurred losses and necessary reconstruction costs. In fact, in order to manage the compensations in a fair way both to citizens and business owners, soon after the seismic sequence, the regional administrative authority started (1) collecting damage and consequence-related data, (2) evaluating information sources and (3) taking care of the cross-checking of various reports. A specific database—so-called Sistema Informativo Gestione Europa (SFINGE)—was devoted to damaged business activities. As a result, 7 years after the seismic events, scientists can rely on a one-of-a-kind, vast and consistent database, containing information about (among other things): (1) buildings’ location and dimensions, (2) occurred structural damages, (3) experienced direct economic losses and (4) related reconstruction costs. The present work is focused on a specific data subset of SFINGE, whose elements are Long-Span-Beam buildings (mostly precast) deployed for business activities in industry, trade or agriculture. With the available set of data, empirical fragility functions, cost and loss ratio curves are elaborated, that may be included within existing Performance Based Earthquake Engineering assessment toolkits. KW - Empirical fragility functions KW - Empirical consequence curves KW - Precast buildings KW - Emilia-Romagna earthquake KW - PBEE Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10518-019-00759-1 SN - 1573-1456 VL - 18 SP - 1693 EP - 1721 PB - Springer Nature ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rossi, Leonardo A1 - Winands, Mark H. M. A1 - Butenweg, Christoph ED - Zhang, Jessica T1 - Monte Carlo Tree Search as an intelligent search tool in structural design problems JF - Engineering with Computers : An International Journal for Simulation-Based Engineering N2 - Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a search technique that in the last decade emerged as a major breakthrough for Artificial Intelligence applications regarding board- and video-games. In 2016, AlphaGo, an MCTS-based software agent, outperformed the human world champion of the board game Go. This game was for long considered almost infeasible for machines, due to its immense search space and the need for a long-term strategy. Since this historical success, MCTS is considered as an effective new approach for many other scientific and technical problems. Interestingly, civil structural engineering, as a discipline, offers many tasks whose solution may benefit from intelligent search and in particular from adopting MCTS as a search tool. In this work, we show how MCTS can be adapted to search for suitable solutions of a structural engineering design problem. The problem consists of choosing the load-bearing elements in a reference reinforced concrete structure, so to achieve a set of specific dynamic characteristics. In the paper, we report the results obtained by applying both a plain and a hybrid version of single-agent MCTS. The hybrid approach consists of an integration of both MCTS and classic Genetic Algorithm (GA), the latter also serving as a term of comparison for the results. The study’s outcomes may open new perspectives for the adoption of MCTS as a design tool for civil engineers. KW - Monte Carlo Tree Search KW - Structural design KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Civil engineering KW - Genetic algorithm Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00366-021-01338-2 SN - 1435-5663 SN - 0177-0667 VL - 38 IS - 4 SP - 3219 EP - 3236 PB - Springer Nature CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmitt, Timo A1 - Rosin, Julia A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Seismic Impact And Design Of Buried Pipelines T2 - 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, 18-21 June, 2018 N2 - Seismic design of buried pipeline systems for energy and water supply is not only important for plant and operational safety but also for the maintenance of the supply infrastructure after an earthquake. The present paper shows special issues of the seismic wave impacts on buried pipelines, describes calculation methods, proposes approaches and gives calculation examples. This paper regards the effects of transient displacement differences and resulting tensions within the pipeline due to the wave propagation of the earthquake. However, the presented model can also be used to calculate fault rupture induced displacements. Based on a three-dimensional Finite Element Model parameter studies are performed to show the influence of several parameters such as incoming wave angle, wave velocity, backfill height and synthetic displacement time histories. The interaction between the pipeline and the surrounding soil is modeled with non-linear soil springs and the propagating wave is simulated affecting the pipeline punctually, independently in time and space. Special attention is given to long-distance heat pipeline systems. Here, in regular distances expansion bends are arranged to ensure movements of the pipeline due to high temperature. Such expansion bends are usually designed with small bending radii, which during the earthquake lead to high bending stresses in the cross-section of the pipeline. Finally, an interpretation of the results and recommendations are given for the most critical parameters. Y1 - 2018 N1 - Paper No 10600 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER -