After a damaging earthquake, assessment of the residual seismic capacity is required for large parts of the building stock. Increased vulnerability of structures together with the threat of immediate aftershocks call for rapid and objective decision making ...
In this paper a 2-phase decision tree algorithm is developed to qualitatively predict damage in RC buildings based on earthquake characteristics and structural properties. To this end, the structural properties considered are the natural period of the fund ...
The framework to evaluate the benefit of seismic upgrading of Galanis et al. (2018) is compared to that present in the Swiss seismic code for existing buildings since 2004, updated in 2017. To illustrate the comparison, the example building of Galanis et a ...
This paper addresses seismic vulnerability assessment at urban scale. Particularly, it focuses on the differences in damage distribution obtained from the application of several simplified methods for displacement demand determination. The results obtained ...
Ein Grossteil der Todesopfer und Gebäudeschäden bei stärkeren Erdbebenereignissen weltweit ist aufden Einsturz von Mauerwerksgebäuden zurückzuführen. Dieser ist oft Folge eines Versagens der (tragenden und sekundären) Mauerwerkswände quer zu ihrer Ebene. B ...
