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Seismic nonstructural vulnerability assessment in school buildings

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This paper addresses the large-scale classification of the seismic vulnerability of nonstructural components in school buildings. A rapid visual screening methodology is proposed that highlights the factors that likely have a major effect on the seismic behavior of nonstructural building components. This methodology is based primarily on questionnaire forms that are used to construct a nonstructural index and priority ranking that identifies the most vulnerable category of nonstructural components. Because numerical answers in the questionnaires can produce unreliable results, a calibration of the categories by weight is proposed via fragility functions to obtain a vulnerability index. Finally, the developed methodology is applied to a case study of school buildings in Italy.

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the national project SMARTCASE (“Soluzioni innovative MultifunzionAli peR l’otTimizzazione dei Consumi di energiA primaria e della vivibilità indoor nel Sistema Edilizio,” in English “Innovative multifunctional solutions to optimize primary energy consumption and indoor livability of the building system” announcement No. 713/Ric-29/10/2010 (PON 2007–2013).

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    Alessandra De Angelis & Marisa Pecce

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Table 4 Fragility functions references
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De Angelis, A., Pecce, M. Seismic nonstructural vulnerability assessment in school buildings. Nat Hazards 79, 1333–1358 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-015-1907-3

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