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Journal Publications

  1. Duncan, S., Cox, D. T., Barbosa, A.R., Lomonaco, P., Park, H., Alam, M. S., and Yu, C. (2021). Physical Modeling of Progressive Damage and Failure of Wood-Frame Coastal Residential Structures Due to Surge and Wave Forces. Coastal Engineering. DOI.

  2. Park, H., Koh, M.J., Cox, D. T., Alam, M. S., and Shin, S. (2021). Experimental Study of Debris Transport Driven by a Tsunami-like Wave: Application for Non-uniform Density Groups and Obstacles. Coastal Engineering, 166, 103867. DOI.

  3. Romano, F., Alam, M.S., Faggella, M., Zucconi, M., Barbosa, A.R., Ferracuti, B. (2021). Seismic Demand Model Class Uncertainty in Seismic Loss Analysis for a Code-Designed URM Infilled RCBuilding. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 19, 429-462. DOI.

  4. Alam, M.S., Winter, A.O., Galan, G., Shekhar, K., Barbosa, A.R., Motley, M.R., Eberhard, M.O., Cox, D. T., Arduino, P., and Lomonaco, P. (2020). Tsunami-like Wave Induced Lateral and Uplift Pressures and Forces on an Elevated Coastal Structure. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 146(4), 04020006. DOI.

  5. Winter, A.O., Alam, M.S., K. Shekhar, K., Motley, M.R., Eberhard, M.O., Barbosa, A.R., Lomonaco, P., Arduino, P., and Cox, D. T. (2020). Tsunami-like Wave Forces on an Elevated Coastal Structure: Effects of Flow Shielding and Channeling. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 146(4), 04020021. DOI.

  6. Shekhar, K., Winter, A.O., Alam, M.S., K., Arduino, P., Miller, G.R., Motley, M.R., Eberhard, M.O., Barbosa, A.R., Lomonaco, P., and Cox, D. T. (2020). Conceptual Evaluation of Tsunami Debris Field Impact and Damming Forces. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 146(6),04020033. DOI.

  7. Park, H., Alam, M. S., Cox, D. T., Barbosa, A. R., and van de Lindt, J. W. (2019). Probabilistic Seismic and Tsunami Damage Analysis (PSTDA) of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Applied to Seaside,Oregon. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 35, 101076. DOI.

  8. Kameshwar, S., Cox, D. T., Barbosa, A. R., Farokhnia, K., Park, H., Alam, M. S., and van de Lindt, J.W. (2019). Probabilistic Decision-Support Framework for Community Resilience: Incorporating Multi-Hazards, Infrastructure Interdependencies, and Resilience Goals in a Bayesian Network. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 191, 106568. DOI.

  9. Alam, M.S., and Barbosa, A. R. (2018). Probabilistic Seismic Demand Assessment Accounting for Finite Element Model Class Uncertainty: Application to a Code-Designed URM Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frame Building. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 47(15), 2901-2920. DOI.

  10. Alam, M.S., Barbosa, A. R., Scott, M. H., Cox, D. T., and van de Lindt, J. W. (2018). Development of Physics-Based Tsunami Fragility Functions Considering Structural Member Failures. Journal of Structural Engineering, 144(3), 04017221. DOI.

  11. Park, H., Cox, D. T., Alam, M. S., and Barbosa, A. R. (2017). Probabilistic Seismic and Tsunami Hazard Analysis Conditioned on a Megathrust Rupture of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Frontiers in built environment, 3, 32. DOI.

  12. Alam, M. S., Sajjad, M. R., Yasir, Z., and Haque, F. M. M. (2013). A Statistical Study on StructuralCharacteristics of RC Building Stock of Dhaka City for Seismic Loss Assessment Application. In Applied Mechanics and Materials,  330, 884-888. Trans Tech Publications. DOI.

  13. Alam, M. S., Sakib, N., and Mumtaz, M. (2011). Seismic Loss Assessment of Dhaka for Scenario Earthquakes Using a Displacement-Based Method. International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 11(5), 29-33. DOI.

Datasets

  1. Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Alam, M.S., Amini, M., Kameshwar, S., Park, H., Sanderson, D. (2022). "Report", in Seaside Testbed Data Inventory for Infrastructure, Population, and Earthquake-Tsunami Hazard. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  2. Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Alam, M.S., Amini, M., Kameshwar, S., Park, H., Sanderson, D. (2022). "SocialSystems", in Seaside Testbed Data Inventory for Infrastructure, Population, and Earthquake-Tsunami Hazard. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  3. Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Alam, M.S., Amini, M., Kameshwar, S., Park, H., Sanderson, D. (2022). "Earthquake Hazards", in Seaside Testbed Data Inventory for Infrastructure, Population, and Earthquake-Tsunami Hazard. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  4. Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Alam, M.S., Amini, M., Kameshwar, S., Park, H., Sanderson, D. (2022). "Tsunami Hazards", in Seaside Testbed Data Inventory for Infrastructure, Population, and Earthquake-Tsunami Hazard. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  5. Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Alam, M.S., Amini, M., Kameshwar, S., Park, H., Sanderson, D. (2022). "Buildings", in Seaside Testbed Data Inventory for Infrastructure, Population, and Earthquake-Tsunami Hazard. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  6. Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Alam, M.S., Amini, M., Kameshwar, S., Park, H., Sanderson, D. (2022). "Transportation Network", in Seaside Testbed Data Inventory for Infrastructure, Population, and Earthquake-Tsunami Hazard. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  7. Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Alam, M.S., Amini, M., Kameshwar, S., Park, H., Sanderson, D. (2022). "Water Network", in Seaside Testbed Data Inventory for Infrastructure, Population, and Earthquake-Tsunami Hazard. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  8.  Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Alam, M.S., Amini, M., Kameshwar, S., Park, H., Sanderson, D. (2022). "Electric Power Network", in Seaside Testbed Data Inventory for Infrastructure, Population, and Earthquake-Tsunami Hazard. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  9. Barbosa, A., Cox, D., Alam, M.S., Mugabo, I., Park, H., Duncan, S., Lomonaco, P. (2021). "Static and Dynamic Structural Characterization Tests of Wave Basin Hydrodynamic Experiments of Scaled Wood Frame Shear-Wall Residential Buildings", in Progressive Damage and Failure of Wood-Frame Coastal Residential Structures Due to Hurricane Surge and Wave Forces. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  10. Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Alam, M.S. Park, H., Duncan, S., Lomonaco, P. (2021). "Hydrodynamic Tests on Physical Models of Scaled Wood Frame Shear-Wall Residential Buildings", in Progressive Damage and Failure of Wood-Frame Coastal Residential Structures Due to Hurricane Surge and Wave Forces. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  11. Alam, M.S. and Barbosa, A. R. (2019). Earthquake-Tsunami Design of Special Moment Resisting Frame (SMRF) Reinforced Concrete (RC) Buildings Following ASCE7-16 Provisions. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  12. Motley, M., Eberhard, M., Arduino, P., Winter, A., Barbosa, A., Maddux, T., Shekhar, K., Alam, M. S. (2019). "Breaking Wave", in Probabilistic Assessment of Tsunami Forces on Coastal Structures. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  13. Motley, M., Eberhard, M., Arduino, P., Winter, A., Barbosa, A., Maddux, T., Shekhar, K., Alam, M. S. (2019). "Broken Wave", in Probabilistic Assessment of Tsunami Forces on Coastal Structures. DOI.

  14. Motley, M., Eberhard, M., Arduino, P., Winter, A., Barbosa, A., Maddux, T., Shekhar, K., Alam, M. S. (2019). "Unbroken Wave", in Probabilistic Assessment of Tsunami Forces on Coastal Structures. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  15. Arduino, P., Motley, M., Eberhard, M., Cox, D., Barbosa, A., Lomonaco, P., Shekhar, K., Alam, M.S., and Winter, A. (2018) "Debris Impact Experiments", in NHERI Debris Impact Experiments. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

Book Chapters

  1. Miyoshi, O. and Alam, M.S. (2015). "Manuals on Seismic Design of New Buildings", developed as a part of the collaborative project Capacity Development on Natural Disaster Resistant Techniques of Construction and Retrofitting of Public Buildings (CNCRP)" between the Public Works Department (PWD), Government of Bangladesh and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Technical Reports

  1. Alam, M.S., Simpson, B.G., and Barbosa, A.R. (2020). "Defining Appropriate Fragility Functions for Oregon Lifelines". Technical report for the Cascadia Lifeline Program. Link.

Reconnaissance Reports

  1. Alam, M.S., Rodgers, J., Pilkington, S., Arora, P., Gurley, K., Robertson, I. (2022). “StEER Typhoon Merbok Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR)“, in StEER 17 September 2022 Typhoon Merbok. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  2. Mosalam, K. Gunay, S. Alam, M.S. Robertson, I. (2022). "27 July 2022, Philippines, Mw 7.0 Earth-quake Event Brie ng", in StEER - 27 July 2022, Philippines, Mw 7.0 Earthquake. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  3. Mosalam, K. Gunay, S. Archbold, J. Alam, M.S. Kijewski-Correa, T. (2022). "2022 Afghanistan Earthquake Event Brie ng", in StEER 22 June 2022, Afghanistan, Mw 5.9 Earthquake. DesignSafe CI. DOI.

  4. Roueche, D. Bagheri Jeddi, A. Do, T. Prevatt, D. Alam, M.S. (2022). "Texas and Louisiana March 2022 Tornado Outbreak Event Briefing", in StEER - 21-22 March 2022 Tornado Outbreak. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  5. Alam, M.S., Robertson, I. Mosalam, K. Gunay, S. Kijewski-Correa, T. (2022) ``Tonga Tsunami Event Briefing", in StEER - 14-15 January 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruption and Tsunami. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  6. Pilkington, S., Roueche, D., Gutierrez Soto, Alam, M.S., Napolitano, R. Kijewski-Correa, T., Prevatt, D., Kaushal, S., Nakayama, J., Saleem, M., Ibrahim, H., Lyda, A., Lester, H., Caballero Russi, D., Gurley, K., Robertson, I., Lombardo, F. (2021).  ``StEER: 10 December 2021 Midwest Tornado Outbreak Joint Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report and Early Access Reconnaissance Report (PVRR-EARR)", in StEER - 10 December 2021 Midwest Tornado Outbreak. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  7. Fischer, E., Hakhamaneshi, M., Alam, M.S., M. Alberto, Y. Aranha, C. Derakhshan, S. Djima, W. Greenwood, W. Haro, G. Hassan, W. Hudson, K. Julius, A. Laughery, L. Ma, X. Maddalozzo, W. Mulchandani, H. Rodriguez-Nikl, T. Tsai, Y. Unal, M. Wong, J. Yoo, D. Ziotopoulou, K. (2019). EERI VERT Searles Valley Earthquake Phase 1 Report. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  8. Fischer, E., Hakhamaneshi, M., Alam, M.S., Y, Alberto., Aranha, C., Guillermo, D., Wilfrid, D., Mikael, G., Wael, H., Brisid, I., Edwin, L., Chiara, M., Tonatiuh, R.N., Mehmet, U., Hartanto, W., David, Y. (2019). EERI VERT Albania Earthquake Phase 1 Report. DesignSafe-CI. DOI.

  9. Fischer, E., Hakhamaneshi, M., Alam, M.S., Alberto, Y., Aranha, C, Calderon, V., Carballo, D.C., Djima, W., Fans, G.D., Gartner, M., Haro, A. G., Hasan, W., Irizarry, A.P, Kakoty, P., Maalouf, S., Martin A., Mulchandani, H., Nikolaou, S.,., Ramirez J., Segura, C., Unal, M., Wibowo, H. Yoo, D. (2020). EERI VERT Phase 1 Indios, Puerto Rico M 6.4 Earthquake. DesignSafe CI. DOI.

Conference Proceedings & Presentations

  1. Alam, M. S., Barbosa, A.R., Mugabo, I., Cox, D. T., Park, H., Lee, D., and Shin, S. (2022). Physical and Numerical Modeling of Damage of ElevatedLight-frame Wood Residential Building due to Hurricane Surge and Waves. SimCenter Syposium, Austin, TX, November 3-4, 2022. Link.

  2. Alam, M.S. and Jung, J. (2022). Development ofWebGIS-based tool for Probabilistic Seismic Damage and Loss Modeling of Wastewater Network. Cascadia Lifelines Program Webinar, May 19, 2022. Link.

  3. Alam, M.S., Simpson, B., and Barbosa, A.R. (2022). Fragility Function Viewer for Oregon Lifelines. ASCE Lifelines Conference, February 7, 2022. Link.

  4. Alam, M.S., Simpson, B., and Barbosa, A.R. (2021). Fragility Function Database and Web-tool for Oregon Lifelines. Cascadia Lifelines Program Webinar, October 21, 2021.

  5. Romano, F., Alam M.S., Zucconi M., Faggella M., Barbosa A.R., and Ferracuti B. (2021). Seismic Loss Analysis of a Code-Designed Infilled RC Building Accounting for In ll Model Class Uncertainty.8th International Conference COMPDYN 2021, June 27-30, 2021, Athens, Greece.

  6. Park, H., Koh, M. J., Cox, D. T., Alam, M.S., & Shin, S. (2020). Experimental Modeling of Debris Advection Driven by the Tsunami: Application For Non-uniform Density Groups of Debris With Obstacles. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, (36v), 23-23.

  7. Simpson, B., Alam, M.S., and Barbosa, A.R. (2020). Defining an Appropriate Fragility Function Database for Oregon Lifelines. 45th Annual Natural Hazard Research and Application Workshop, Boulder, CO, July 12 -15, 2020. Link.

  8. Alam, M. S., Barbosa, A. R., Scott, M. H., Cox, D. T., and van de Lindt, J. W. (2019). Multi-hazard Earthquake-Tsunami Structural Fragility Assessment Framework. 13th International Conference on Application of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, ICASP13, May 26-30, 2019, Seoul, South Korea. DOI. Link.

  9. Romano, F., Alam M.S., Faggella M., Zucconi M., Barbosa A.R., and Ferracuti B. (2019). Seismic Loss Analysis of a Modern RC Building Accounting for Uncertainty of In ll Strut Modeling Parameters. 7th International Conference COMPDYN 2019, June 24-26, 2019, Crete, Greece.

  10. Park, H., Alam, M.S., Barbosa, A.R., and Cox, D.T. (2019). Probabilistic Seismic and TsunamiDamage Analysis for Community Resilience Assessment. ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, ASCE, Pasadena, CA, June 18-21, 2019. Link.

  11. Sanderson, D., Kameshwar, S., Park, H., Alam, M.S., Rosenheim, N., & Cox, D. T. (2019). Understanding exposure, vulnerability, and risks of cascading seismic-tsunami hazards on infrastructure and society in Seaside, OR. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Vol. 2019, pp. NH13A-07.

  12. Lomonaco, P., Alam, M. S., Arduino, P., Barbosa, A., Cox, D. T., Do, T., ... & Winter, A. (2018). Experimental modeling of wave forces and hydrodynamics on elevated coastal structures subject to waves, surge or tsunamis: the effect of breaking, shielding and debris. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, (36), 53-53. Link.

  13. Cox, D.T., Barbosa, A.R.,  Park, H., Alam, M.S. (2018). “A Probabilistic Framework for Seismic and Tsunami Community Loss Assessment.” ASCE-SEI Structures Congress, ASCE-SEI, April 19–21, 2018, Fort Worth, Texas.

  14. Alam, M.S., Barbosa, A.R., Park, H., and Cox, D.T. (2017). Probabilistic Seismic and Tsunami Hazard Analysis (PSTHA) Conditional on A Megathrust Rupture of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. EERI Annual Meeting, March 7-10, 2017, Portland, OR.

  15. Alam, M.S., and Barbosa, A.R. (2016). Infill Strut Model Class Uncertainty of Seismic Response of Reinforced Concrete Masonry Infilled Frames. ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, ASCE, Nashville, TN, May 22 -25, 2016.

  16. Alam, M.S., and Barbosa, A.R. (2015). Modeling Uncertainties in Reinforced Concrete Masonry InfilledFrames. Poster, ASCE-SEI Structures Congress, ASCE-SEI, April 23-25, 2015, Portland, OR.

Other Products

  1. Alam, M.S., Simpson, B.G., Barbosa, A.R., Olsen, M.J. (2021). Fragility Function Viewer, CLiP Lifelines Fragility Database, v 0.1.0. Link.

  2. Alam, M.S. and Jung, J.  (2022). Pipeline Damage Estimation Tool, v 0.1.0. Cascadia Lifeline Program. Link.

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