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Analysis of the impact of large scale seismic retrofitting strategies through the application of a vulnerability-based approach on traditional masonry buildings

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The buildings’ capacity to maintain minimum structural safety levels during natural disasters, such as earthquakes, is recognisably one of the aspects that most influence urban resilience. Moreover, the public investment in risk mitigation strategies is fundamental, not only to promote social and urban and resilience, but also to limit consequent material, human and environmental losses. Despite the growing awareness of this issue, there is still a vast number of traditional masonry buildings spread throughout many European old city centres that lacks of adequate seismic resistance, requiring therefore urgent retrofitting interventions in order to both reduce their seismic vulnerability and to cope with the increased seismic requirements of recent code standards. Thus, this paper aims at contributing to mitigate the social and economic impacts of earthquake damage scenarios through the development of vulnerability-based comparative analysis of some of the most popular retrofitting techniques applied after the 1998 Azores earthquake. The influence of each technique individually and globally studied resorting to a seismic vulnerability index methodology integrated into a GIS tool and damage and loss scenarios are constructed and critically discussed. Finally, the economic balance resulting from the implementation of that techniques are also examined.

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This paper refers to work supported by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT), under the research project “URBSIS: Assessing Vulnerability and Managing Earthquake Risk at Urban Scale” (PTDC/ECM-URB/2564/2012). The authors acknowledge to SPRHI and REg, and thank to Professor Aníbal Costa and Eng. Filipe Neves for having made available a dataset of information related to the reconstruction process of the Faial Island. The constructive comments and suggestions given by the anonymous reviewers are also acknowledged by the authors.

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    Tiago Miguel Ferreira

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Ferreira, T.M., Maio, R. & Vicente, R. Analysis of the impact of large scale seismic retrofitting strategies through the application of a vulnerability-based approach on traditional masonry buildings. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 16, 329–348 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-017-0385-x

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