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- Title
Seismic nonstructural vulnerability assessment in school buildings.
- Authors
Angelis, Alessandra; Pecce, Marisa
- 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.
- Subjects
ITALY; EARTHQUAKE hazard analysis; SEISMIC networks; EARTHQUAKE engineering; SCHOOL buildings; SCHOOLS
- Publication
Natural Hazards, 2015, Vol 79, Issue 2, p1333
- ISSN
0921-030X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11069-015-1907-3