Life-cycle Seismic Costs Estimation and Seismic Insurance Model for Simple RC Buildings in Western China

摘要

The estimation of annual average earthquake losses in life long period for simple reinforced concrete (RC) frames based stochastic method models is the focus of the article. An innovative assembly-based vulnerability methodology is firstly adopted for seismic loss estimation, that damage of the structure which connected into response of the structure under a given stochastic motions use nonlinear incremental dynamic analysis to estimate physical damage of columns and beams of buildings in a detailed. Description of the uncertainty of all parameters in research through appropriate probability distributions to reach quantification of the life-cycle seismic losses expected value. Moreover, the study is also to give the expected suggested insurance premium of RC buildings in China western high hazardous areas based Monte-Carlo stochastic simulation in its service lifetime.