Wendy Ballent

  • MS Student
  • STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Wendy graduated in Spring 2018 with a M.S. student in Structural Engineering. She investigated how to better incorporate uncertainty in risk assessment. As part of her research, Wendy applied different mathematical frameworks in cases of post-seismic structural damage assessments and social vulnerability ranking.

Wendy's primary advisor was Professor Ross Corotis.

Publications

  • Ballent, W.; Corotis, R.; Torres-Machi, C. Representing Uncertainty in Civil Engineering with Dempster Shafer (Evidence) Theory. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, in press, DOI: 10.1080/23789689.2018.1542213
  • Ballent, W.; Corotis, R.; Torres-Machi, C. Dempster-Shafer Theory Applications in Post-Seismic Structural Damage and Social Vulnerability Assessment. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, in press, DOI: 10.1080/23789689.2019.1583488
  • Ballent, W.; Corotis, R.; Torres-Machi, C. (2018) Belief and Basic Evidence Theory for Combining Expert Seismic Risk Assessments. U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (11 NCEE), June 25-29, Los Angeles, California. Organized by: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
  • Ballent, W.; Corotis, R.; Torres-Machi, C. (2018) Generalized Information Theory for Engineering and Sociological Risk Assessments. 10th Forum on Engineering Decision Making (IFED 2018), May 6-9, Lake Louise, Canada. Organized by: International Forum on Engineering Decision Making.