Al Mouayed Bellah Nafeh

Al Mouayed Bellah Nafeh

Physical Vulnerability Lead @ Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation

Publications

Conference Proceedings

  1. Nafeh, AMB., Aljawhari, K., Silva, V. (2026) A comprehensive new global vulnerability model for improved earthquake loss modelling. ECEE26 - 18th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Berlin, Germany. [PDF][Presentation]

  2. Aljawhari, K., Caruso, M., Nafeh, AMB., Silva, V. (2026) A new database of seismic vulnerability functions for carbon emissions in Europe. ECEE26 - 18th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Berlin, Germany. [PDF][Presentation]

  3. Caruso, M., Aljawhari, K., Nafeh, AMB., Silva, V., Galasso, C. (2026) A new global embodied-carbon seismic risk model. ECEE26 - 18th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Berlin, Germany.

  4. Narlitepe, F., Nafeh, AMB., Aljawhari, K., Silva, V. (2026) Towards a state-dependent fragility and vulnerability model database for earthquake sequence risk assessment. ECEE26 - 18th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Berlin, Germany.

  5. Rao, A., Borozan, J., Brooks, C., Nafeh, AMB., Yepes-Estrada, C., Silva, V. (2026) Benchmarking GEM’s 2026 global seismic risk model through historical scenarios. ECEE26 - 18th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Berlin, Germany. [PDF][Presentation]

  6. Taherian, A., Silva, V., Nafeh, AMB., O’Reilly, GJ. (2026) On the digital twins for post-earthquake loss assessment of building portfolios. ECEE26 - 18th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Berlin, Germany.

  7. Aljawhari, K., Caruso, M., Nafeh, AMB., Silva, V., Galasso, C. (2026) Evaluating the carbon footprint of earthquakes in Europe. 13NCEE - 13th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Portland, Oregon.

  8. Narlitepe, F., Nafeh, AMB., Aljawhari, K., Silva, V. (2026) Advancing state-dependent models for earthquake sequence risk assessments. 13NCEE - 13th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Portland, Oregon.

  9. Nafeh, AMB., Aljawhari, K., Silva, V. (2026) A new global vulnerability model for regional seismic risk assessments. 13NCEE - 13th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Portland, Oregon.

  10. O’Reilly, GJ., Nafeh, AMB., Ozsarac, V., & Silva, V. (2025) Comparing fragility functions derived from simplified analytical models to those developed with empirical data from past earthquakes. COMPDYN 2025- 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Rhodes, Greece. [PDF]

  11. Taherian, A., Silva, V., Nafeh, AMB., O’Reilly, GJ., Vicente, R. (2025) Rapid earthquake loss assessment through Digital Twins: A machine learning and sensor-based approach. COMPDYN 2025- 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Rhodes, Greece. [PDF][Presentation]

  12. Aljawhari, K., Nafeh, AMB., Silva, V. (2025) A new global database of seismic vulnerability models for improved regional risk assessments. COMPDYN 2025- 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Rhodes, Greece. [PDF][Presentation]

  13. Nafeh, AMB., Aljawhari, K., Silva, V. (2025) An open-source toolkit for seismic vulnerability assessment. COMPDYN 2025- 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Rhodes, Greece. [PDF][Presentation]

  14. Narlitepe, F., Nafeh, AMB., Aljawhari, K., Silva, V. (2025) Towards a seismic vulnerability database for benefit-cost analysis considering retrofitting interventions. COMPDYN 2025- 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Rhodes, Greece. [PDF][Presentation]

  15. Nafeh, AMB., Aljawhari, K., Silva, V. (2025) Global vulnerability database for improved regional risk assessments. ICOSSAR 2025- 14th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability. [PDF]

  16. Aljawhari, K., Nafeh, AMB., Silva, V. (2025) Open-source toolkit for seismic vulnerability assessment. ICOSSAR 2025- 14th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability. [PDF]

  17. O’Reilly, GJ., Nafeh, AMB. (2024) Analytical and empirical fragility functions for regionally assessing non-ductile infilled frames. 18WCEE - 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Milan, Italy. [PDF]

  18. O’Reilly, GJ., Nafeh, AMB. (2024) PB-LOSS: A future candidate for seismic risk classification guidelines. 18WCEE - 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Milan, Italy. [PDF]

  19. Nafeh, AMB., O’Reilly, GJ. Towards the assessment and risk classification of existing building typologies using storey-loss functions. ICASP14 - 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, Dublin, Ireland: 2023. [PDF][Presentation]

  20. Nafeh, AMB., O’Reilly GJ. Fragility function uncertainty quantification in infilled RC frame buildings. COMPDYN 2023 - 9th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Athens, Greece: 2023. [PDF][Presentation]

  21. O’Reilly, GJ, Nafeh, AMB., & Shahnazaryan, D. (2023). Simplified tools for the risk assessment and classification of existing buildings. Procedia Structural Integrity, 44, 1744–1751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prostr.2023.01.223 [PDF][Presentation]

  22. O’Reilly, GJ, Nafeh, AMB.. Towards improved response quantification of existing infilled RC frames. 3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering & Seismology, Bucharest, Romania: 2022. [PDF][Presentation]

  23. Nafeh, AMB., O’Reilly, GJ. Simplified Seismic Risk Assessment of Non-Ductile Infilled RC Frame Buildings. 3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering & Seismology, Bucharest, Romania: 2022. [PDF][Presentation]

  24. O’Reilly, GJ., Shahnazaryan, D., Nafeh, AMB., Ozsarac, V., Sarigiannis, D., Dubini, P., et al. Utilization of a sensor array for the risk-aware navigation in industrial plants at risk of natech accidents. Proceedings of the ASME 2022 Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference PVP2022, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: 2022. [PDF][Presentation]

  25. Nafeh, AMB., O’Reilly, GJ. Accurate Collapse Capacity Quantification for Infilled RC Frame Buildings. COMPDYN 2021 - 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2021. DOI: 10.7712/120121.8658.18545. [PDF][YouTube][Presentation]

  26. Nafeh, AMB., O’Reilly, GJ., Monteiro R. Simplified Seismic Assessment of Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames. 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Sendai, Japan: 2021. [PDF][YouTube]

Organized Special Sessions

  1. Organized and co-chaired minisymposium “Advancing Seismic Fragility and Vulnerability Modelling for Regional Risk Applications: Development, Validation, and Tools” (MS-53-COF) for the 11th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2027) held in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece (2027). [Flyer]

  2. Organized and co-chaired special session on “Advancing Vulnerability Modelling for Regional Risk Assessment” for the 18th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18ECEE) held in Berlin, Germancy (2026). [Flyer]

  3. Organized and co-chaired special session on “Recent Advances in Vulnerability Modelling for the Built-Environment” for the 14th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR25) held in Los Angeles, USA (2025). [Flyer]

  4. Co-chaired special session on “The International Macroseismic Scale of 2024 (IMS-2024) and Related Research and Development” for the 39th European Seismological Commission General Assembly (ESC) held in Corfu, Greece (2024). [Flyer]

Seminars

  1. Simplified Approaches for the Seismic Risk Assessment of Non-Ductile Infilled RC Structures (ROSE Seminar) [Presentation][YouTube]

  2. Fragility functions for infilled RC buildings: analytical derivation and empirical validation (ROSE Seminar) [Presentation][YouTube]

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