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Value of information on the risk/benefit of infrastructure under strong winds in Mexico

International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability (12th : 2015 : Vancouver, B.C.)

The occurrence of hurricanes has produced many fatalities and damages in Mexico (1) and new efforts for preparation and risk mitigation are being conducted In this work, several cost-effective strategies to reduce the expected number of fatalities and losses, given the site exposure to wind hazard and given the consequences level of the structures failure, are recommended. The strategies are based on risk and reliability concepts and tools, like the expected life-cycle cost (which includes the initial and expected future costs in the structure life-cycle) associated to proposed scenarios with different levels of epistemic uncertainty. As a means to compare the structure failure probability with an allowable safety measure, the acceptable failure probability of structures is obtained for several consequences costs.

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This collection contains the proceedings of ICASP12, the 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering held in Vancouver, Canada on July 12-15, 2015. Abstracts were peer-reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts were invited to submit full papers. Also full papers were peer reviewed. The editor for this collection is Professor Terje Haukaas, Department of Civil Engineering, UBC Vancouver.

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0076103

Non UBC

Unreviewed

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