On April 4, 2002, MAE Center Director, Daniel Abrams, spoke at the University of Notre Dame's Linbeck Distinguished Lecture Series. The Linbeck Lecture Series in Earthquake Engineering: Challenges of the New Millennium, focused on, "Bringing together practitioners and researchers to tackle the challenges of protecting our nation's infrastructure against seismic hazards."
Dr. Abrams talk reflected the Series' focus by explaining the MAE Center's new Consequence Based Engineering (CBE) paradigm, which will help stakeholders and practitioners assess and reduce seismic risks.
Dr. Abrams talk reflected the Series' focus by explaining the MAE Center's new Consequence Based Engineering (CBE) paradigm, which will help stakeholders and practitioners assess and reduce seismic risks.
April 4, 2002
Daniel Abrams lecture
On April 4, 2002, MAE Center Director, Daniel Abrams, spoke at the University of Notre Dame's Linbeck Distinguished Lecture Series. The Linbeck Lecture Series in Earthquake Engineering: Challenges of the New Millennium, focused on, "Bringing together practitioners and researchers to tackle the challenges of protecting our nation's infrastructure against seismic hazards."
Dr. Abrams talk reflected the Series' focus by explaining the MAE Center's new Consequence Based Engineering (CBE) paradigm, which will help stakeholders and practitioners assess and reduce seismic risks.
Abrams' talk entitled, Consequence-Based Engineering Approaches for Reducing Earthquake Losses in Mid-America, is the MAE Center's newly directed research plan. "Consequence-Based Engineering," is a systems-based methodology for minimizing seismic risk through selective intervention to critical components of a respective system.
This new paradigm is intended for use by practicing engineers responding to needs of their clients. The clients or "stakeholders" have a significant vested interest in mitigating seismic risk. Stakeholders are individuals or groups likely to sustain major losses when an earthquake strikes. The mitigation action plans developed by using CBE, can apply to various systems ranging from the built environment across a small community to a national transportation or utility network.
An engineer can adopt the CBE approach today using existing tools for estimating hazards, vulnerability and loss. However, the method will be much stronger and effective as research is conducted using advance technologies to develop state-of-the-art tools for risk assessment and visualization.
To find out more about the CBE approach, read the paper recently published by the MAE Center's Director, Deputy Director and Associate Director, which can be found on the MAE Center's web site at: Consequence-Based Engineering lecture
Dr. Abrams talk reflected the Series' focus by explaining the MAE Center's new Consequence Based Engineering (CBE) paradigm, which will help stakeholders and practitioners assess and reduce seismic risks.
Abrams' talk entitled, Consequence-Based Engineering Approaches for Reducing Earthquake Losses in Mid-America, is the MAE Center's newly directed research plan. "Consequence-Based Engineering," is a systems-based methodology for minimizing seismic risk through selective intervention to critical components of a respective system.
This new paradigm is intended for use by practicing engineers responding to needs of their clients. The clients or "stakeholders" have a significant vested interest in mitigating seismic risk. Stakeholders are individuals or groups likely to sustain major losses when an earthquake strikes. The mitigation action plans developed by using CBE, can apply to various systems ranging from the built environment across a small community to a national transportation or utility network.
An engineer can adopt the CBE approach today using existing tools for estimating hazards, vulnerability and loss. However, the method will be much stronger and effective as research is conducted using advance technologies to develop state-of-the-art tools for risk assessment and visualization.
To find out more about the CBE approach, read the paper recently published by the MAE Center's Director, Deputy Director and Associate Director, which can be found on the MAE Center's web site at: Consequence-Based Engineering lecture
