Risk-averse decision-making for civil infrastructure exposed to low-probability, high-consequence events

Risk-benefit-based design decisions for

Risk-benefit-based design decisions for low-probability/high consequence earthquake events in Mid-America

✍ Bruce R. Ellingwood; Yi-Kwei Wen 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 285 KB

## Abstract Decision‐making under uncertainty is a difficult task when the information available is scarce and consequences are large. Such is the case in assessing vulnerabilities of buildings and transportation facilities to earthquakes in Mid‐America where large events have occurred in the past