scholarly journals Seismic Vulnerability Assessment Method for Vernacular Architecture Considering Uncertainty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ortega ◽  
S. Saloustros ◽  
P. Roca
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of MCDM Methods Integrated with Rapid Visual Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing RC Structures

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 6411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Harirchian ◽  
Kirti Jadhav ◽  
Kifaytullah Mohammad ◽  
Seyed Ehsan Aghakouchaki Hosseini ◽  
Tom Lahmer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Rc Structures ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Rapid Visual Screening

Recently, the demand for residence and usage of urban infrastructure has been increased, thereby resulting in the elevation of risk levels of human lives over natural calamities. The occupancy demand has rapidly increased the construction rate, whereas the inadequate design of structures prone to more vulnerability. Buildings constructed before the development of seismic codes have an additional susceptibility to earthquake vibrations. The structural collapse causes an economic loss as well as setbacks for human lives. An application of different theoretical methods to analyze the structural behavior is expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, introducing a rapid vulnerability assessment method to check structural performances is necessary for future developments. The process, as mentioned earlier, is known as Rapid Visual Screening (RVS). This technique has been generated to identify, inventory, and screen structures that are potentially hazardous. Sometimes, poor construction quality does not provide some of the required parameters; in this case, the RVS process turns into a tedious scenario. Hence, to tackle such a situation, multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods for the seismic vulnerability assessment opens a new gateway. The different parameters required by RVS can be taken in MCDM. MCDM evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making in several fields. This paper has aimed to bridge the gap between RVS and MCDM. Furthermore, to define the correlation between these techniques, implementation of the methodologies from Indian, Turkish, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) codes has been done. The effects of seismic vulnerability of structures have been observed and compared.

Large-Scale Seismic Vulnerability Assessment Method for Urban Centres. An Application to the City of Florence

2014 ◽  
Vol 628 ◽  
pp. 49-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Ripepe ◽  
Giorgio Lacanna ◽  
Pauline Deguy ◽  
Mario de Stefano ◽  
Valentina Mariani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Ground Acceleration ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Damage Scenarios ◽  
The City

The seismic vulnerability assessment of a building requires a comprehensive knowledge of both building structural features and soils geophysical parameters. To achieve a vulnerability assessment at the urban scale a large amount of data would be necessary, with a consequent involvement of time and economical resources. The aim of this paper is hence to propose a simplified procedure to evaluate the seismic vulnerability of urban centres and possible seismic damage scenarios in order to identify critical areas and/or building typologies to plan future actions of seismic risk mitigation and prevention. The procedure is applied to the outstanding case study of the city of Florence. The research is based on the definition of major building typologies related to construction periods and type of the structural system (masonry or reinforced concrete), the identification of a set of sample buildings, the analysis of the dynamic behaviour and the evaluation of a vulnerability index with an expeditious approach. The obtained results allow to define potential vulnerability and post-event damage scenarios related to the expected levels of peak ground acceleration.

scholarly journals Development of a Numerical Tool for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Vernacular Architecture

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Ortega ◽  
Graça Vasconcelos ◽  
Hugo Rodrigues ◽  
Mariana Correia ◽  
Tiago Filipe Da Silva Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Numerical Tool

scholarly journals Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Historic Constructions in the Downtown of Mexico City

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Gerardo F. Salazar ◽  
Tiago Miguel Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Seismic Intensity ◽  
Structural Vulnerability ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Damage Scenarios ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Multiple Components

Seismic risk is determined by the sum of multiple components produced by a certain seismic intensity, being represented by the seismic hazard, the structural vulnerability and the exposure of assets at a specified zone. Most of the methods and strategies applied to evaluate the vulnerability of historic constructions are specialized in buildings with higher importance, either public or private, by relegating ordinary dwellings to a second plane. On account of this, this paper aims to present a seismic vulnerability assessment, considering a limited urban area of the Historic Downtown of Mexico City (La Merced Neighborhood), thus showing the analysis of 166 historic buildings. The seismic vulnerability assessment of the area was performed resorting to a simplified seismic vulnerability assessment method, composed of both qualitative and quantitative parameters. To better manage and analyze the human and economic exposure, the results were integrated into a Geographic Information System (GIS) tool, which allowed to map vulnerability and damage scenarios for different earthquake intensities.

Seismic vulnerability assessment using regional empirical data

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 1187-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Yakut ◽  
Guney Ozcebe ◽  
M. Semih Yucemen
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Seismic Vulnerability Assessment
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