Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Civil Engineering Structures at Multiple Scales: From Single Buildings to Large-Scale Assessment

The devastating seismic events occurring all over the world continue to alert the scientific, technical, and political communities of the need to identify assets at risk and develop more effective and cost-efficient seismic risk mitigation strategies. Significant advances in earthquake engineering research have been achieved with the rise of new technologies and techniques, with potential uses in risk assessment, management, and mitigation. Nevertheless, there is still much to be done, particularly regarding the existing building stock, most of which have been built without seismic provisions. 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. Research and Practice on the 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. This 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. Provides the theoretical backgrounds on the most advanced seismic vulnerability assessment approaches at different scales and for most common building typologiesCovers the most common building typologies and the materials they are made, such as concrete, masonry, steel, timber and raw earthPresents practical guidelines on how the outputs coming from such approaches can be used to outline effective risk mitigation and emergency planning strategies INDICE: 1. From single buildings to large-scale assessment 2. Survey and characterization techniques at different scales Part 1: Building Scale 3. Challenges in the seismic assessment of RC structures: From pre-code buildings to recent ones 4. Seismic assessment of traditional masonry structures 5. Earthen structures 6. Timber and mixed structures 7. Steel structures 8. Seismic vulnerability of Industrial facilities Part 2: Large Scale 9. Large scale vulnerability assessment and mitigation 10. Emergency planning at the urban scale 11. Risk assessment of transportation network systems 12. Building damage scenarios to support response and recovery

• ISBN: 978-0-12-824071-7
• Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés