Ghazanfar Ali Anwar

Dr. Ghazanfar Ali Anwar

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
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Academic Career Length

9Years (2018-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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30 December 2019 in Advances in Structural Engineering
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CZChanghai Zhai
Changhai Zhai
Recent earthquakes have highlighted additional losses due to the lack of resilience of damaged structures. Environmental impact, as performance indicator, has also received increased attention within performance-based earthquake engineering. In this article, a combined probabilistic framework is proposed to assess seismic risk, sustainability, and resilience of a non-ductile reinforced concrete frame structure. The framework utilizes three-dimensional inelastic fiber-based numerical modeling approach to develop limit states associated with performance levels. The decision variables (i.e. repair cost, downtime, and equivalent carbon emissions) are quantified at both component level and system level and are compared considering seismic risk, sustainability, and resilience. In addition, the proposed approach considers uncertainties in the building performance and consequence functions of structural and non-structural components. Fast-track and slow-track schemes are utilized as a repair strategy and probabilistic resilience is quantified given the investigated time period. The proposed approach can aid the development of the next generation of performance-based engineering incorporating both resilience and sustainability.

15 July 2020 in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration
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17 November 2020 in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
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Yaohan LiYaohan Li
Yaohan Li
It is of vital importance to incorporate sustainability and resilience in the performance-based decision-making of civil infrastructure under seismic hazard. However, a performance-based engineering framework utilizing component-level approach, integrating seismic loss, sustainability, and resilience in a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) is not yet extensively developed particularly for retrofit selection in a long-term perspective. This paper introduces a framework utilizing performance-based approach to couple seismic loss, sustainability, and resilience in decision-making framework for selection of different retrofit alternatives. A component-based probabilistic approach is developed for the seismic loss, sustainability, and resilience assessment in a long-term perspective. The resulting social, economic, and environmental consequences are converted to expected annual consequences (EACs) by considering the full range of seismic hazards, and are utilized as a multi-criterion in the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). The proposed long-term performance-based multi-criteria decision-making (PB-MCDM) framework considers five consequences, which include cost, casualties, equivalent carbon emissions, embodied energy, and repair time. Based on the illustrative example, it may be concluded that incorporating seismic sustainability and resilience in PB-MCDM approach in a long-term perspective can provide ideal solutions and better decision-making against retrofit alternatives.

1 April 2024 in Reliability Engineering & System Safety
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XZXiaoge Zhang
Xiaoge Zhang

6 July 2023 in Resilient Cities and Structures
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MKMustesin Ali Khan
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1 October 2021 in Structures
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AKAatif Ali Khan
Aatif Ali Khan
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AUAsif Usmani
Asif Usmani