Seismic nonstructural vulnerability assessment in school buildings

Alessandra Angelis () and Marisa Pecce

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2015, vol. 79, issue 2, 1333-1358

Abstract: This paper addresses the large-scale classification of the seismic vulnerability of nonstructural components in school buildings. A rapid visual screening methodology is proposed that highlights the factors that likely have a major effect on the seismic behavior of nonstructural building components. This methodology is based primarily on questionnaire forms that are used to construct a nonstructural index and priority ranking that identifies the most vulnerable category of nonstructural components. Because numerical answers in the questionnaires can produce unreliable results, a calibration of the categories by weight is proposed via fragility functions to obtain a vulnerability index. Finally, the developed methodology is applied to a case study of school buildings in Italy. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Seismic vulnerability; Rapid visual screening; Nonstructural components; Fragility functions; School buildings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1907-3

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