A screening procedure for seismic risk assessment in urban building stocks

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2007-05-01

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Sucuoğlu, Haluk
Yakut, Ahmet

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An effective step for seismic risk mitigation in large urban areas under high seismic risk is to identify the most vulnerable buildings that may sustain significant damage during a future earthquake. Once they are identified properly, existing seismic risks may be reduced either by retrofitting such buildings, or by replacing them with new buildings in view of a particular risk-mitigation planning strategy. A fast and simple seismic risk-assessment procedure for vulnerable urban building stocks is proposed in this study. It is basically a sidewalk survey procedure based on observing selected building parameters from the street side, and calculating a performance score for determining the risk priorities for buildings. Statistical correlations have been obtained for measuring the sensitivity of damage to the assigned performance score by employing a database consisting of 454 damaged buildings surveyed after the 1999 Duzce earthquake in Turkey. The results revealed that the proposed screening procedure provides a simple but effective tool for selecting those buildings that have significant damage risk. These buildings have to be subjected to a more detailed assessment for a final decision on their seismic risk level.

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Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology, Geophysics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42322

Journal

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA

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https://doi.org/10.1193/1.2720931

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Department of Civil Engineering, Article

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H. Sucuoğlu and A. Yakut, “A screening procedure for seismic risk assessment in urban building stocks,” EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, pp. 441–458, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42322.