Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Civil Engineering Structures at Multiple Scales

From Single Buildings to Large-Scale Assessment

Tiago Miguel Ferreira, Hugo Rodrigues

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780128240724
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Civil Engineering Structures at Multiple Scales: From Single Buildings to Large-Scale Assessment provides an integrated, multiscale platform for fundamental and applied studies on the seismic vulnerability assessment of civil engineering structures, including buildings with different materials and building typologies. The book shows how various outputs obtained from different scales and layers of assessment (from building scale to the urban area) can be used to outline and implement effective risk mitigation, response and recovery strategies. In addition, it highlights how significant advances in earthquake engineering research have been achieved with the rise of new technologies and techniques.

The wide variety of construction and structural systems associated with the complex behavior of their materials significantly limits the application of current codes and building standards to the existing building stock, hence this book is a welcomed guide on new construction standards and practices.

• Provides the theoretical backgrounds on the most advanced seismic vulnerability assessment approaches at different scales and for most common building typologies
• Covers the most common building typologies and the materials they are made from, such as concrete, masonry, steel, timber and raw earth
• Presents practical guidelines on how the outputs coming from such approaches can be used to outline effective risk mitigation and emergency planning strategies

Table of contents

• Cover Image
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Chapter 1 Building survey and characterization techniques at different scales
• Chapter 2 Seismic vulnerability assessment of RC structures: research and practice at building level
• Chapter 3 Numerical modeling for the seismic assessment of masonry structures
• Chapter 4 Vulnerability assessment of earthen structures
• Chapter 5 New houses' architecture influenced by traditional timber frames'
• Chapter 6 Seismic fragility analysis of steel building portfolios based on mathematical models
• Chapter 7 Vulnerability assessment of precast industrial facilities
• Chapter 8 Methods, techniques, and tools for assessing the seismic vulnerability of building stocks
• Chapter 9 Risk mitigation at large scale
• Chapter 10 Emergency and evacuation management strategies in earthquakes: towards holistic and user-centered methodologies for their design and evaluation
• Chapter 11 Seismic risk assessment of transportation networks
• Chapter 12 Disaster recovery in the education sector
• Index