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Fragility

Porter, K.A., R.P. Kennedy, and R.E. Bachman, 2006. Developing Fragility Functions for Building Components. A Report to ATC-58. Applied Technology Council, Redwood City, CA, http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2006-deriving-fragility.pdf 

Porter, K.A., R.P. Kennedy, and R.E. Bachman, 2007. Creating fragility functions for performance-based earthquake engineering. Earthquake Spectra 23 (2), May 2007, 471-489, DOI:10.1193/1.2720892, http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2007-deriving-fragility.pdf

Porter, K.A., R.O. Hamburger, and R.P Kennedy, 2007. Practical development and application of fragility functions. Proc. SEI Structures Congress, May 16-19, 2007, Long Beach CA. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2007-SEI-fragility.pdf

Porter, K.A., 2007. Fragility of hydraulic elevators for use in performance-based earthquake engineering. Earthquake Spectra. 23 (2), May 2007, 459-469, DOI:10.1193/1.2720902, http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2007-elevator-fragility.pdf

Porter, KA; Scawthorn, C; Honegger, DG; O'Rourke, TD; Blackburn, F. 1992. Performance of water supply pipelines in liquefied soil. Proceedings of the 4th US-Japan Workshop on Earthquake Disaster Prevention for Lifeline Systems, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 08/19-21/91; pp. 3-17. 1992. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2007-water-pipe-liquefied-soil.pdf 

Operational risk, loss estimation, and performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE)

Porter, K.A., R. Graves, E. Reis, and P. Somerville, 2007. Index Woodframe Houses and their Response to Puente Hills Scenario Earthquakes. Southern California Earthquake Center, Los Angeles, CA. 120 pp. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2007-SCEC-CEA.pdf

Porter, K.A., X.Xu, and S. Krishnan, 2006. Analysis of Simultaneous Operational Failure of Critical Facilities due to Earthquake, for a California Utility. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA. 111 pp. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2006-Utility-seismic-study.pdf

Porter, K.A., 2006. Evaluating Premium Incentives for the California Earthquake Authority. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 60 pp., http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2006-CEA-premium-incentives.pdf, http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2006-CEA-appendices.pdf

Porter, K.A., C.R. Scawthorn, and J.L. Beck, 2006. Cost-effectiveness of stronger woodframe buildings. Earthquake Spectra 22 (1), February 2006, 239-266, http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2006-woodframe.pdf

Porter, K.A., 2006. The Value of Seismically Strengthening a House, a Nontechnical Overview. Presentation to Professionals in Real Estate, Pasadena, CA, November 10, 2006. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2006-Woodframe-nontechnical.ppt

Porter, K.A., 2005. A Taxonomy of Building Components for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering. PEER Report No, 2005/03, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, Berkeley, CA, 58 pp. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2005-Taxonomy.pdf

Porter, K.A., J.L. Beck, R.V. Shaikhutdinov, S.K. Au, K. Mizukoshi, M. Miyamura, H. Ishida, T. Moroi, Y. Tsukada, and M. Masuda, 2004. Effect of seismic risk on lifetime property value. Earthquake Spectra, 20 (4), Nov 2004, 1211-1237. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2004-LPV.pdf

Porter, K.A., J.L. Beck, and R.V. Shaikhutdinov, 2004. Simplified estimation of economic seismic risk for buildings. Earthquake Spectra, 20 (4), Nov 2004, 1239-1264. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2004-PFL.pdf   

Porter, K.A., J.L. Beck, H.A. Seligson, C.R. Scawthorn, L.T. Tobin, and T. Boyd, 2002. Improving Loss Estimation for Woodframe Buildings, Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering, Richmond, CA, 136 pp., http://resolver.caltech.edu/caltechEERL:2002.EERL-2002-01 (main report) and http://resolver.caltech.edu/caltechEERL:2002.EERL-2002-02  (appendices)

Porter, K.A., 2003. An overview of PEER’s performance-based earthquake engineering methodology. Proc. Ninth International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP9) July 6-9, 2003, San Francisco, CA. Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association (CERRA), 973-980. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2003-PBEE-Overview.pdf

Porter, K.A., J.L. Beck, and R.V. Shaikhutdinov, 2002. Sensitivity of building loss estimates to major uncertain variables, Earthquake Spectra, 18 (4), 719-743. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2002-Sensitivity.pdf 

Porter, K.A., A.S. Kiremidjian, and J.S. LeGrue, 2001, Assembly-based vulnerability of buildings and its use in performance evaluation. Earthquake Spectra, 17 (2), 291-312. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2001-ABV.pdf

Porter, K.A. and A.S. Kiremidjian, 2001. Verifying performance-based design objectives using assembly-based vulnerability. ICOSSAR ’01 Structural Safety and Reliability, Newport Beach, California, USA, June 17 - 21, 2001, paper FCO225. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2001-Verifying-PBEE.pdf

Hurricanes

Mosqueda, G. and K.A. Porter, 2006. Preliminary conclusions: assessing damage to engineered buildings in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Structural Engineer, February 2006, 20-26. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Mosqueda-2006-Katrina.pdf

Mosqueda, G., K.A. Porter, J. O’Connor, and P. McAnany, 2007. Damage to engineered buildings and bridges in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Proc. SEI Structures Congress, May 16-19, 2007, Long Beach CA. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Mosqueda-2007-SEI-Katrina.pdf

Casualty loss estimation

Porter, K.A., K. Shoaf, and H. Seligson, 2006. Value of injuries in the Northridge Earthquake. Earthquake Spectra, 22 (2), May 2006. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2006-VOI.pdf

Acceptable risk

Porter, K.A., C. Scawthorn, C. Taylor, N. Blais, 1998. Appropriate Seismic Reliability for Critical Equipment Systems: Recommendations Based on Regional Analysis of Financial and Life Loss. MCEER-98-0016, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 104 pp. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-1998-ACR.pdf

Real-time loss estimation

Wald, D., K.W. Lin, K. Porter, and L. Turner, 2008. ShakeCast: automating and improving the use of ShakeMap for post-earthquake decision-making and response. Earthquake Spectra, 24 (2), 533-553, http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Wald-2008-ShakeCast.pdf

Porter, K.A., J.L. Beck, J.Y. Ching, and J. Mitrani-Reiser, 2004, Real-Time Loss Estimation for Instrumented Buildings, Report EERL 2004-08, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. http://caltecheerl.library.caltech.edu/374. 

Porter, K.A., J. Mitrani-Reiser, J.L. Beck, and J.Y, Ching, 2006. Smarter structures: real-time loss estimation for instrumented buildings, paper NCEE-1236, Proc., 8th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, April 18-22, 2006, San Francisco, CA. http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Porter-2006-RTLE-8NCEE-poster.pdf.

Field data collection

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