Fathi M Layas

Enhancing structural resilience to sequential earthquakes: Lessons from recent earthquake sequences and low-damage seismic design strategies

Earthquake risk is commonly evaluated on the basis of individual design events, yet real seismic crises may involve mainshock-aftershock sequences, earthquake doublets, or multiple strong motions separated by minutes, days, or months. When a structure is already damaged by a preceding event, the next earthquake acts on...