id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt z316pz54657 Dimitrios Patsialis Exploring Modeling Fidelity for Computationally Efficient Seismic Performance Assessment 2022 .txt text/plain 381 12 15 These methodological advancements supported additional advances across two different earthquake engineering practical applications: a) design of seismic protective devices (SPDs), focusing on the impact of the fidelity of the structural response estimation on the device effectiveness; b) accuracy of seismic performance assessment within a Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) setting, examining the potential vulnerabilities of alternative approaches to achieve computational efficiency by approximating either the uncertainty propagation or the fidelity of the structural response estimation A multi-fidelity Monte Carlo (MFMC) framework for seismic risk assessment is also proposed to guarantee unbiased predictions. cache/z316pz54657.txt txt/z316pz54657.txt