Publications

Citations of my publications can be found at Google Scholar.

Books

• 1. Nilesh Shome, Mohsen Rahnama, Steve Jewson, and Paul Wilson “Quantifying Model Uncertainty and Risk”, Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters, Editors: Gero Michel, Elsevier (https://www.elsevier.com/books/risk-modeling-for-hazards-and-disasters/michel/978-0-12-804071-3)

  2. Matthew Foote, Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace, Matthew Jones, John Hillier, Barbara Page, Adam Podlaha, Claire Souch, Rashmin Gunasekera, Shane Latchman, Milan Simic, Renato Vitolo, Nilesh Shome, Alexandros Georgiadis, Petr Puncochar, Goran Trendafiloski, Chris Ewing, Radovan Drinka, Radek Solnicky, Sarka Cerna and Marc Hill “Chapter 4 Building Catastrophe Models”, Natural catastrophe risk management and modelling: A practitioner's guide. Editor(s): Matthew Foote, John Hillier, Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace, Matthew Jones (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118906057)

  3. Nilesh Shome and Peter M. Powers. "An Introduction to Logic Trees and Quantification of Uncertainty in Seismic Hazard Analysis". Applied Geology in California, Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG) Special Publication Number 26, Editors: Robert Anderson and Horacio Ferriz (http://www.appliedgeologybook.com/)

  4. Nilesh Shome. "Seismic Loss Assessment". Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Editors: Michael Beer, Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou, Edoardo Patelli, Siu-Kui Au. Springer (https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-3-642-35344-4)

Journal Articles

• 1. Shome, N., Jayaram, N., Krawinkler, H., and Rahnama, M. (2015). Loss Estimation of Tall Buildings Designed for the PEER Tall Building Initiative Project, Earthquake Spectra, 31(3), 1309–1336

  2. Jayaram, N., Shome, N., and Rahnama, M., 2012. Development of earthquake damage functions for tall buildings, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 41(11), 1495–1514

  3. Bazzurro, P., Cornell, C.A., Shome, N., and Carballo, J. E. (1998) “Three proposals for characterizing MDOF nonlinear seismic response”, Journal of Structural Eng., ASCE.

  4. Shome,  N., Cornell, C.A., Bazzurro, P., and Carballo, J.E., 1998. Earthquake records and nonlinear response, Earthquake Spectra, 14( 3), 469-500

Reports

• 1. PEER 2011/05 (2011).  Case studies of the seismic performance of tall buildings designed by alternative means : task 12 report for the Tall Buildings Initiative. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Berkeley, CA.

  2. PEER 2009/01 (2009).Evaluation of Ground Motion Selection and Modification Methods: Predicting Median Interstory Drift Response of Buildings. Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Berkeley, CA.

  3. CAPSS, 2004. Community action plan for seismic safety (CAPSS), Office of the City Administrator,San Francisco, CA.

  4. FEMA-154,  2002. Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: A Handbook. Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC.

  5. FEMA-155,  2002. Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation. Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC.

  6. Shome, N and Cornell, C.A. (1998) Probabilistic Seismic Demand Analysis of Nonlinear Structures, PhD Thesis, Stanford University.

Conference Proceedings

• 1. Maurizio Gobbato, Vahid Bisadi, Umang Nayyar and Nilesh Shome (2017). A Probabilistic Model for Fire Following Earthquake Loss Estimations in the United States and Canada. 12th Int. Conf. on Structural Safety and Reliability (12 ICOSSAR), Vienna, Austria. Christian Bucher, Bruce R. Ellingwood, Dan M. Frangopol (Editors).

  2. Patxi Uriz, Emel Seyhan, Nilesh Shome and Mohsen Rahnama (2017). Uncertainty and Sensitivity of Loss Results in US Earthquake (USEQ™) Catastrophe Model. 12th Int. Conf. on Structural Safety and Reliability (12 ICOSSAR), Vienna, Austria. Christian Bucher, Bruce R. Ellingwood, Dan M. Frangopol (Editors).

  3. V. Bisadi, M. Gobbato, and N. Shome (2017). Sensitivity Analysis of Fire-Following Earthquake Models. 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile.

  4. R. J. Farahani, J. Woessner, S. Bingi, I. Charvet, Ch. Williams, M. Nyst, M. Masuda, J. Bryngelson, and N. Shome (2017). Tsunami Risk for Insurance Portfolios from Megathrust Earthquakes in Cascadia Subduction Zone. 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile.

  5. M. Gobbato, N. Shome, and G. Woo (2017). The Cost-Effectivenss of a Public Californian Earthqauke Early Warning System. 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile.

  6. Nilesh Shome, Nicolas Luco, Matt C. Gerstenberger, Oliver S. Boyd, Ned (Edward) H. Field, Abbie B. Liel and John W. van de Lindt (2014). Aftershock Risks Such As Those Demonstrated by The Recent Events in New Zealand and Japan. 10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (10NCEE), Anchorage, Alaska.

  7. M. Gobbato, W.M. Yeo and N. Shome (2014). Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis of Earthquake Casualties. 10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (10NCEE), Anchorage, Alaska.

  8. Nilesh Shome and Chesley Williams (2014). Aftershock Risk in Japan Following Tohoku Earthquake. 10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (10NCEE), Anchorage, Alaska.

  9. Shome, N., Jayaram, N. and Rahnama, M. (2012). Uncertainty and Spatial Correlation Models for Earthquake Losses. 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal.

  10. Jayaram, N. and Shome, N. (2012). A Statistical Analysis of the Response of Tall Buildings to Recorded and Simulated Ground Motions. 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal.

  11. Molas, G.L.,  Aslani, H.,  Shome, N., Cabrera, C., Taghavi, S., Rahnama, M., & Bryngelson, J. (2012) Impacts of Earthquake Hazard Uncertainties On Probabilistic Portfolio Loss Risk Assessment. 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal.

  12. Chang, L., Molas, G. and Shome, N. (2012). Analysis of Ground Motions from the 2010-2011 New Zealand Earthquakes. 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal.

  13. Shome, N., Jayaram, N. and Rahnama, M. (2011). Hurricane loss assessment of building portfolios considering epistemic uncertainties. 13th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  14. Shome, N and Luco, N. (2010). Loss estimation of multi-mode dominated structures for a scenario of earthquake event. 9th U.S. National & 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, CA.

  15. Shome, N. and Bazzuro, P. (2009), Comparison of vulnerability of a new high-rise concrete moment frame structure using HAZUS and nonlinear dynamic analysis, 10th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Osaka, Japan.

  16. Shome, N. and Cornell, C. A. (2006). Probabilistic seismic demand analysis for a vector of parameters. 8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, CA.

  17. Scawthorn, C., Rojahn, C. and Shome (2002). Rapid visual screening for potential seismic hazards-innovations to the methodology. 7th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Boston.

  18. Shome, N. and Cornell, C.A. (2000) Structural seismic demand analysis: Consideration of collapses.  8th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, St Luis, USA. 

  19. Shome, N. and Cornell, C.A. (1998). Normalization and scaling accelerograms for nonlinear structural analysis. 6th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Seattle, USA.

  20. Gao, L., Haldar, A. and Shome, N. (1995) Strength and serviceability requirements in seismic design using nonlinear SFEM, IUTAM Symposium on Advances on Nonlinear Stochastic Mechanics, Norway.

  21. Prabhakar, G., Shome, N., Giridhar, K., Verma, U.S.P., and Tilak, M.M. (1993). Comparative study of the response of a structure for deconvoluted and free field ground motion. International Conference on Vibration and Physics.

  22. Shome, N., Samota, A., Verma, U.S.P., and Tilak, M.M. (1992). Analysis of prestress concrete buried plant water pipeline for Kakrapar Atomic Power Project, National Geotechnical Conference, India.