Evaluating the construction methods of cold-formed steel structures in reconstructing the areas damaged in natural crises, using the methods AHP and COPRAS-G

Bitarafan, Mahdi; Zolfani, Sarfaraz Hashemkhani; Arefi, Shahin Lale; Zavadskas, Edmundas K.

doi:10.1016/j.acme.2012.06.015

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“…The significant point is that the presence of many people, be it staff or clients in these buildings, in addition to activities and services present in this sort of buildings causes that large numbers of them are situated in central parts in a country. Hence, defining the ways to reduce vulnerability of office buildings against blast seems essential so that they may be less vulnerable in the crisis following a Free-Air Blast (Coolset 2010;Graham 2006;Łodygowski, Garstecki 2012;Bitarafan et al 2012;Jasiński 2010).…”

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Model for Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability of Office Buildings to Blast Using Swara and Smart Methods (A Case Study of Swiss Re Tower)

Nakhaei

Bitarafan²,

Arefi

et al. 2016

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Accidental and intentional explosions are incidents often destroying buildings and leaving casualties. As a result of these blasts all over the world, demand of safe constructions with less vulnerability to explosions is rising. A large number of office buildings are built each year in many countries, housing large numbers of staff and clients, and due to specific nature and function, activities and services, these buildings are usually centrally located. Their architectural form being vital, therefore the article attempts, firstly, to present indices depicting the building form from the viewpoint of vulnerability to explosion. Secondly, the article presents such indexes as: capability to reduce blast effects, economic factors, simplicity of implementation, relationship among spaces in the crisis condition, and creating the least unusable space. The model of rapid assessment of vulnerability of office buildings forms to blast, SMART (simple multi attribute ranking technique) procedure is used and, applying the SWARA method, the weight of each major index and sub-index is arrived at. The model presented in the paper shows the assessment systems using figures between zero and a hundred, and four levels of vulnerability: weak, medium, good and excellent. The closer the figure to a hundred, the lower the vulnerability of the office building forms to blast. Swiss Re Tower case study was presented in the article rating of vulnerability of this building against explosion. It was found to be equal to 62.11%, and its standing was at medium level.

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confidence: 98%

Model for Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability of Office Buildings to Blast Using Swara and Smart Methods (A Case Study of Swiss Re Tower)

Nakhaei

Bitarafan²,

Arefi

et al. 2016

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…Very unimportant (VU) A criterion is strongly inferior to another (0,0,1,2) Less important (LI) A criterion is slightly inferior to another (1,2.5,4) Equally important (EI) Two criteria contribute equally to the object (3,5,7) More important (MI) Judgment slightly favors one criterion over another (6,7.5,9) Very important (VI) Judgment strongly favors one criterion over another (8,9,10,10) The abovementioned steps are discussed in more details in what follows.…”

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Urban stormwater construction method selection using a hybrid multi-criteria approach

Ebrahimian

Ardeshir

Rad

et al. 2015

Automation in Construction

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“…Li et al (2013) analyzed the inconsistent comparison matrix in AHP and proposed a way to improve comparison matrix consistency by using a sorting and ranking methodology. To manage crises in the reconstruction of the damaged areas, the AHP method for weighing the important criteria and a novel complex proportional assessment of alternatives with gray relations for evaluating the alternatives were successfully applied (Bitarafan et al, 2012). Li and Zou (2011) proposed a fuzzy AHP method to deal with the public-private partnerships in infrastructure projects.…”

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An approach using multi-factor combination to evaluate high rocky slope safety

Yang

Wen

2016

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. A high rocky slope is an open complex giant system for which there is contradiction among different influencing factors and coexistence of qualitative and quantitative information. This study presents a comprehensive intelligent evaluation method of high rocky slope safety through an integrated analytic hierarchy process, extension matter element model and entropy weight to assess the safety behavior of the high rocky slope. The proposed intelligent evaluation integrates subjective judgments derived from the analytic hierarchy process with the extension matter model and entropy weight into a multiple indexes dynamic safety evaluation approach. A combined subjective and objective comprehensive evaluation process, a more objective study, through avoiding subjective effects on the weights, and a qualitative safety assessment and quantitative safety amount are presented in the proposed method. The detailed computational procedures were also provided to illustrate the integration process of the above methods. Safety analysis of one high rocky slope is conducted to illustrate that this approach can adequately handle the inherent imprecision and contradiction of the human decision-making process and provide the flexibility and robustness needed for the decision maker to better monitor the safety status of a high rocky slope. This study was the first application of the proposed integrated evaluation method in the safety assessment of a high rocky slope. The study also indicated that it can also be applied to other similar problems.

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Evaluating the construction methods of cold-formed steel structures in reconstructing the areas damaged in natural crises, using the methods AHP and COPRAS-G

Cited by 59 publications

References 45 publications

Model for Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability of Office Buildings to Blast Using Swara and Smart Methods (A Case Study of Swiss Re Tower)

Model for Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability of Office Buildings to Blast Using Swara and Smart Methods (A Case Study of Swiss Re Tower)

Urban stormwater construction method selection using a hybrid multi-criteria approach

An approach using multi-factor combination to evaluate high rocky slope safety

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