Open-Challenges and Recent Advances in Buildings’ Vulnerability Assessment Under Natural Hazards
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 207
Special Issue Editors
Interests: earthquake engineering; structural engineering; seismics building; structural analysis; construction engineering; civil engineering; construction; concrete technologies; structural dynamics
Interests: RC and unreinforced masonry structures; seismic vulnerability, risk and strengthening; loss assessment; data-driven fragility models; retrofitting of RC and masonry structures with innovative materials, wooden structures.
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Interests: risk analysis; risk assessment; structural engineering; tsunami; risk modeling; vulnerability assessment; building; earthquake
Interests: analysis of the vulnerability of buildings due to natural risks
Interests: structural retrofit by composite materials; seismic vulnerability and loss assessment of RC structures; typological fragility curves; seismic design of low-damage post-tensioned timber walls; performance assessment for corroded RC members
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Interests: seismic; hydrogeological and volcanic risk with particular attention to the analysis of vulnerability of building structures at national and regional scale
Interests: reinforced concrete buildings; masonry infills; nonlinear modeling; fragility analysis; experimental testing; large-scale vulnerability analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An increasing number of disaster events has been recorded worldwide in the last twenty years compared to the previous two decades (UNDRR, 2020). This increasing trend can be clearly related to meteorological or climatological risks as a result of climate change. Nonetheless, geophysical (earthquakes) and hydrogeological (floods) risks continue to have the most powerful impact in terms of victims and affected people, respectively. In fact, in the past two decades, earthquakes were the deadliest form of disasters, accounting for 58% of total deaths and approximately 20% of the cost of recorded economic damage among all natural and anthropogenic hazards.
Given the global distribution of disaster events and the increasing exposure and vulnerability, it is urgent to develop a comprehensive framework providing a better understanding of complex multi-hazard dynamics and improved predictive models to quantify multiple risks.
Against this background, this Special Issue aims to promote the discussion, debate and the sharing of knowledge on effective approaches through a comprehensive multi-hazard (earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, volcanoes) and multisectoral approach.
The discussion will encourage the debate on building vulnerability/fragility assessment and on its remaining challenges, and on integrated approaches explicitly considering hazards interaction and its effects on vulnerability. Welcomed topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The definition of homogenized damage scale or a generalized conversion rule effective to uniform the results comparison from the different methods;
- The effect of using different intensity measures (IM) in fragility assessment, considering the definition of "efficiency" and "sufficiency" IM, also in handling post-earthquake damage data;
- Is the uncertainties propagation in fragility results affected by the methodological approach (empirical, analytical, or hybrid approach)? It is affected by the different application scale (single building, local or regional scale)?
- Does the effect of ageing and deterioration play an effective role in vulnerability trends?
- Are shakemap or ground motion prediction equations effective in forecasting hazards?
Dr. Carlo Del Gaudio
Dr. Maria Zucconi
Dr. Ioanna Ioannou
Dr. Daniela D. De Gregorio
Dr. Barbara Ferracuti
Prof. Dr. Giulio Zuccaro
Prof. Dr. Gerardo Mario Verderame
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fragility curves
- vulnerability model
- residential RC buildings
- masonry buildings
- damage data
- multiple hazards
- cascading effects
- mitigation/adaptation
