A Seismic Loss Assessment Procedure for Masonry Buildings

摘要

The paper provides a contribution for the assessment of economic losses in masonry buildings, following a component-based approach, to be implemented within the modern probabilistic seismic risk analysis. It is based on the computation of proper decision variables as the potential economic losses due to the direct repair cost, in order to improve the resilience to a seismic event. An application to a three-story unreinforced masonry building is illustrated, focusing on the computation of structural losses. Nonlinear dynamic analyses have been adopted, following the multiple stripe analysis method.