The angle is not a detail
A skewed bridge is not a straight bridge drawn at an angle. It fails differently, and the difference is not small.
Amr Ghanem · Writing
Writing
Notes on multi-hazard assessment, seismic behaviour and what the analysis actually tells you — drawn from published work, not opinion.
Change the use, change the risk
A building is designed once. Its mass distribution is not fixed for life — and the codes that check for irregularity only ever looked at it once.
Earthquake plus tsunami is not arithmetic
Why assessing two hazards separately understates the risk to the same building — and what a fragility surface fixes.