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    Uncertainty in risk of highway bridges assessed for integrated seismic and flood hazards
    (Taylor and Francis, 2017-11-24) Yılmaz, Taner; Banerjee, S.; Johnson, P. A.; Civil Engineering; YILMAZ, Taner
    Probabilistic risk assessment for bridges under natural hazards is of great interest to engineers for the development of risk mitigation strategies and implementation plans. The present study evaluates risk of an existing highway bridge in California, USA, under the integrated impact of regional seismic and flood hazards. A sensitivity study combining tornado diagram and first-order second moment reliability analyses is conducted to screen significant uncertain parameters to which bridge response is mostly sensitive. A rigorous uncertainty analysis, employing random sampling and Monte Carlo simulation techniques, is performed to obtain variations in fragility and risk curves of the bridge. Observed variations in risk curves at various risk levels are quantified through 90% confidence intervals and coefficients of variation (COV) of risk. It is observed that uncertainty in the estimated risk increases due to the presence of flood hazard at the bridge site, although mean risk does not vary with flood hazard level. Research outcome signifies that the variation in risk due to parameter uncertainty and varied flood hazard level should not be ignored to ensure bridge safety under the stated multi-hazard condition.
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    Impact spectrum of flood hazard on seismic vulnerability of bridges
    (Techno-Press, 2018-05-25) Yılmaz, Taner; Banerjee, S.; Civil Engineering; YILMAZ, Taner
    Multiple hazards (multihazard) conditions may cause significant risk to structures that are originally designed for individual hazard scenarios. Such a multihazard condition arises when an earthquake strikes to a bridge pre-exposed to scour at foundations due to flood events. This study estimates the impact spectrum of flood-induced scour on seismic vulnerability of bridges. Characteristic river-crossing highway bridges are formed based on the information obtained from bridge inventories. These bridges are analyzed under earthquake-only and the abovementioned multihazard conditions, and bridge fragility curves are developed at component and system levels. Research outcome shows that bridges having pile shafts as foundation elements are protected from any additional seismic vulnerability due to the presence of scour. However, occurrence of floods can increase seismic fragility of bridges at lower damage states due to the adverse impact of scour on bridge components at superstructure level. These findings facilitate bridge design under the stated multihazard condition.
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    Performance of two real-life California bridges under regional natural hazards
    (2016-03) Yılmaz, Taner; Banerjee, S.; Johnson, P. A.; Civil Engineering; YILMAZ, Taner
    The performance of two real-life California bridges is assessed under a possible regional multihazard condition involving floods and earthquakes. For flood events with varied frequency, expected scour depths at bridge piers are calculated and incorporated in finite-element analyses (FEAs) of the bridges under earthquakes that represent regional seismic hazards. Based on FEA results, fragility curves of bridges are developed at component and system levels. Fragility surfaces are generated to acquire comprehensive knowledge on bridge failure probability for the combined effect of earthquake and flood events of varying frequency. Quantified bridge vulnerability is applied to a risk evaluation framework that combines hazard probability with bridge failure consequences. Obtained results depict that the occurrence of flood events can increase the seismic vulnerability and risk of bridges, although the amount of increase depends on bridge attributes. Bigger (large-diameter) foundations tend to reduce the impact of flood hazard on bridge seismic performance. Moreover, the multihazard response of the bridges indicates that the seismic design philosophy used for bridges can play a role in attaining the seismic safety of bridges with flood-induced scour at the foundations.