“…To accommodate a consistent comparison across the three metamodel variants, the validation will be established with respect to the conditional EDP distribution (or statistics) for a specific seismic scenario and structural configuration, as this distribution can be estimated across all of them, and moreover this is a distribution that is frequently explicitly encountered in PBEE applications
3,46 . The conditional distribution is obtained through the propagation of all sources of uncertainty related to the ground motion model (
m and
w ), and is actually the only distribution related to the seismic hazard that can be quantified through variant V 2 , since this variant implementation treats all the ground motion model uncertainties as part of the aleatoric uncertainty description, and therefore it is not able to provide predictions for any desired value of those parameters (in order to be able to accommodate an alternative validation with respect to such values).…”