The population explosion in the second half of the twentieth century has caused exponential growth in economic losses associated with the natural and man-made disasters. Efforts to better understand economic consequences ...

The methodologies used to estimate flood damage to buildings are typically based on aftermath surveys and statistical analyses of insurance claims data that do not consider the direct effects of floodwater hydrodynamics. ...

Este trabajo de investigación se hizo con la intención de estimar la variación en costos usando dos diferentes teorías de diseño. La primera teoría comprende diseñar las estructuras de hormigón, para que los edificios se ...

Los tubos de polímero fibro-reforzado (FRP) rellenos de hormigón constituyen una alternativa eficiente para la construcción de elementos de soporte estructural. Para ser utilizados con un nivel adecuado de confianza, estos ...

The costliest natural disasters to strike Puerto Rico in the last century have been caused by tropical storms and hurricanes. Over the years, many attempts were made to reduce vulnerability by improving the infrastructures. ...

En esta tesis se evaluó la efectividad de materiales viscoelásticos para disipar energía en edificios de acero mediante simulaciones numéricas con elementos finitos. El material se aplicó con tratamientos a cortante y ...

The most widely used model to perform the analysis of piles under lateral loads consists in modeling the pile as a series of beam elements and representing the soil as a group of unconnected, concentrated springs perpendicular ...

Ultra high strength structural AF1410 steel is commonly used in critical aircraft structural components in aerospace and marine application, because it possesses high toughness and outstanding mechanical properties. However, ...

The main purpose of this research was to establish a procedure for the identification of hazardous road sections with high incidence of fatalities. The fatal accident database of the Puerto Rico Traffic Safety Commission ...

A preliminary hydrologic regional conceptual model was developed for a coastal tropical basin and implemented in an integrated, fully distributed, physically based, numerical model. The model attempts to include features ...