Journal Publications
Liel, Abbie B. and Gregory G. Deierlein, Using Assessed Collapse Risk to Inform Seismic Safety Decisions for California's Older Concrete Buildings, Earthquake Spectra, Accepted.
Champion, Casey, and Abbie Liel. The effect of near-fault directivity on building seismic collapse risk, Earthquake Engineering and Strucutral Dynamics, In Press.
Geis, Jamie M., Kristen M. Strobel, and Abbie B. Liel, Snow Induced Building Failures, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, In Press (To be published in print: August, 2012).
Liel, Abbie B. and Kathryn P. Lynch, Vulnerability of Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings and their Occupants in the 2009 L'Aquila,
Italy Earthquake, Natural Hazards Review, In Press (To be published in print: Feb, 2012).
Lynch, Kathryn P., Kristen L. Rowe, Abbie B. Liel, Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings in Southern California , Earthquake Spectra, 27(2), pp. 399-417. Data available online
Liel, Abbie B., Curt B. Haselton, Gregory G. Deierlein, Seismic Collapse Safety of Reinforced Concrete Buildings: II. Comparative Assessment of Non-Ductile and Ductile Moment Frames , Journal of Structural Engineering, 137(4),pp. 492-502.
Haselton, Curt B., Abbie B. Liel, Gregory G. Deierlein, Brian S. Dean, Jason H. Chou, Seismic Collapse Safety of Reinforced Concrete Buildings: I. Assessment of Ductile Moment Frames, Journal of Structural Engineering, 137(4), pp. 481-491.
Haselton, Curt B., Jack W. Baker, Abbie B. Liel, and Gregory G. Deierlein, Accounting for Ground Motion Spectral Shape Characteristics in Structural Collapse Through an Adjustment for Epsilon, Journal of Structural Engineering, 137(3), pp. 332-344.
Liel, A.B., C.B. Haselton, G.G.
Deierlein and J.W. Baker, Incorporating
Modeling Uncertainties in the Assessment of Seismic Collapse Risk of
Buildings, Structural Safety, 31, 2009.
Liel, A.B. and D.P. Billington, Engineering Innovations at Bonneville Dam,
Technology and Culture, July 2008.
Journal Publications (In Submission)
Liel, Abbie B.and Gregory G. Deierlein, Cost-Benefit Evaluation of Seismic Mitigation Alternatives for Older Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings , Submitted (Available here soon).
Conference
Proceedings
Kircher, Charles A., Curt B. Haselton, Abbie B. Liel, Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors Component Equivalency Methodology – FEMA P-795, SEAoC (Structural Engineers Association of California) Convention. Las Vegas, September, 2011.
Liel, Abbie, Kyle A. Jackson and Jamie M. Geis, A Framework for Performance-Based Design and Assessment of Buildings Subjected to Extreme Snow Loads, ICASP, Zurich, Switzerland, August, 2011.
Liel, A., R.B. Corotis, J. Sutton, G. Camata, E. Spacone and R. Holtzman, Rebuilding L'Aquila following the 2009 Earthquake: Priorities and Perspectives, ICASP, Zurich, Switzerland, August, 2011.
Luco, Nicolas, Matt C. Gerstenberger, S.R. Uma, Hyeuk Ryu, Abbie B. Liel and Meera Raghunandan, A Methodology for Post-Mainshock Probabilistic Assessment of Building Collapse Risk, Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Auckland, New Zealand, April, 2011.
Ryu, Hyeuk, Nicolas Luco, S.R. Uma, and Abbie B. Liel, Developing fragilities for mainshock-damaged structures through incremental dynamic analysis, Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Auckland, New Zealand, April, 2011.
Uma, S.R., Hyeuk Ryu, Nicolas Luco, Abbie B. Liel and Meera Raghunandan, Comparison of Mainshock and Aftershock Fragility Curves Developed for New Zealand and U.S. Buildings, Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Auckland, New Zealand, April, 2011.
Liel, Abbie, The Influence of Engineering Organization on Design and Construction Processes at Tennessee Valley Authority Dams of the 1930s, ASCE Structures Congress. Las Vegas, Nevada, April, 2011.
Liel, Abbie B., Jamie M. Geis, Kyle A. Jackson and Natasha Ayala, Developments toward a Performance-Based Methodology for Design and Assessment of Buildings Subjected to Snow Loads Proceedings of 2011 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 2011.
Sattar, Siamak and Abbie B. Liel, Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures with and without Masonry Infill Walls, 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Canada, July, 2010.
Haselton, C.B., A.B. Liel and G.G. Deierlein, Example Application of the FEMA P-695 Methodology for the Collapse Performance Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Special Moment Frame Systems, 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Canada, July, 2010.
Liel, Abbie and Hesham Tuwair, A Practical Approach for Assessing Structural Resistance to Earthquake-Induced Collapse, 2010 Structures Congress and 19th Analysis and Computation Specialty Conference, Orlando, FL, May 2010.
Richard, M.J, L. D. Albano, D. Kelly, and A. B. Liel, Case Study on the Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Intermediate Moment Frames using ACI Design Provisions
, 2010 Structures Congress, Orlando, FL, May 2010.
Haselton, C.B., C.A. Kircher and A.B. Liel, Concept Paper on Utilizing the FEMA P695 (ATC-63) Ground Motion
Spectral Shape Guidelines to Adjust the Target Displacement in the
ASCE/SEI 41 Nonlinear Static Procedure, ATC/SEI Conference on Existing Buildings, San Francisco, CA, December, 2009.
Liel, A.B. and G.G. Deierlein, Preliminary Results of a Cost-Benefit Assessment of Replacing Seismically Vulnerable Non-Ductile Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures, ATC/SEI Conference on Existing Buildings, San Francisco, CA, December, 2009.
Liel, Abbie, Kathryn P. Lynch and Kristen S. Rowe, Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings in Southern California in the Magnitude 7.8 Shakeout Scenario Earthquake, Southern California Earthquake Center, Annual Meeting, Sept. 2009. (Poster Only)
Vigh, L.G., G.G. Deierlein, E. Miranda, A.B. Liel, S. Tipping, Dynamic analysis based seismic performance quantification of steel corrugated shear wall system, The Twelfth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental
Engineering Computing (CC2009), Portugal, September 1-4, 2009.
Deierlein, G.G. and A.B. Liel, Benefit-cost evaluation of seismic risk mitigation in existing non-ductile concrete buildings, ACES Workshop: Advances in Performance-Based Engineering Earthquake Engineering, Corfu, Greece, July, 2009.
Haselton, C.B., A.B. Liel and G.G. Deierlein, Important Issues and Suggested Best Practices in Simulating Structural Collapse Due to Earthquakes: Modeling Decisions, Model Calibration and Numerical Solution Algorithms, CompDyn2009, Greece, June, 2009.
Liel, A.B. and C.B. Haselton, Lessons Learned from Seismic Collapse Assessment of Buildings for Bridge Structures, ASCE TCLEE 2009, Oakland, CA, June 28 - July 1, 2009.
Liel, A.B., C.B. Haselton, and G.G. Deierlein, Comparative Assessment of Collapse Safety of
Reinforced-Concrete Moment Frame Buildings, 14th World Conference on
Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China, Oct. 12 - 17, 2008.
Liel, Abbie
B., Curt B. Haselton, and Gregory G. Deierlein, Comparing Seismic Collapse Safety of Modern and
Existing Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures in California, ASCE Structures
Congress, Vancouver, Canada, April 24 - 26, 2008.
Deierlein,
Gregory G., Abbie B. Liel, Curt B. Haselton, and Charles A. Kircher, ATC 63 Methodology for Evaluating Seismic
Collapse Safety of Archetype Buildings, ASCE Structures Congress,
Vancouver, Canada, April 24 -26 2008.
Haselton, Curt B.,
Abbie B. Liel and Gregory G. Deierlein, Example Evaluation of the ATC-63 Methodology
for Reinforced Concrete Special Moment Frame Buildings, ASCE Structures
Congress, Vancouver, Canada, April 24 - 26, 2008.
Deierlein,
Gregory G., Abbie B. Liel, Curt B. Haselton, Charles A. Kircher, Assessing Building System Collapse
Performance and Associated Requirements for Seismic Design, SEAOC 2007
Convention Proceedings, September 26 - 29, 2007.
Haselton, C.B., A.B.
Liel, and G.G. Deierlein, Significance of
Various Design and Assessment Parameters on Seismic Collapse Safety Assessment
of Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings, Proceedings of the Asian-Pacific
Network of Centers for Earthquake Engineering Research (ANCER), Hong Kong, May
29-30, 2007.
Haselton, Curt B., Abbie B. Liel, Brian S. Dean, Jason S.
Chou and Gregory G. Deierlein, Seismic
Collapse Safety and Behavior of Modern Reinforced Concrete Moment Frame
Buildings, ASCE Structures Congress, Long Beach, CA, May 2007.
Liel,
Abbie B., Curt B. Haselton, Gregory G. Deierlein, and Jack W. Baker, Assessing
the Seismic Collapse Risk of Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures, Including the
Effects of Modeling Uncertainties, Special Workshop on Risk Acceptance and
Risk Communication, Stanford, California, March 26 - 27, 2007.
Liel, A.B., C. B. Haselton, and G.G. Deierlein, The Effectiveness of Seismic Building Code
Provisions on Reducing the Collapse Risk of Reinforced Concrete Moment Frame
Buildings,4th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering,
Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 12-13 2006.
Liel, A.B., C.B. Haselton and
G.G. Deierlein, How have
Changes in Building Code Provisions for Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures
Improved Seismic Safety?, 8th National Conference for Earthquake
Engineering, San Francisco, California, April 18 - 22, 2006.
Technical Reports and Theses
Liel, Abbie B. and Kathryn P. Lynch Vulnerability of Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings and their Occupants in the 2009 L'Aquila, Italy Earthquake, Natural Hazards Center, Quick Response Report, 2009.
Liel, Abbie B., Assessing the Collapse Risk of California's
Existing Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures: Metrics for Seismic Safety
Decisions, Ph.D. Thesis, Submitted June 2008.
Haselton, Curt
B., Abbie B. Liel, Sarah Taylor Lange, and Gregory G. Deierlein, Beam-Column
Element Model Calibrated for Predicting Flexural Response Leading to Global
Collapse of RC Frame Buildings, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research
Center, PEER 2007/03, May 2008.
Liel, Abbie B., Proposals to Improve the Earthquake Resistance of Turkey's Housing, M.Sc. Thesis in Building and Urban Design and Development, University College London, August 2004.
Other
Liel, Abbie
B., Using Collapse Risk to Inform Seismic Safety
Decisions: California's Existing Reinforced Concrete Structures, Winner,
EERI Student Paper Competition, April 2006.