Remarks on damage and response of school buildings after the Central Italy earthquake sequence

The seismic assessment of the vulnerability of existing public structures, especially school buildings, is a crucial issue in seismic prone countries. Recently, several national and regional programs and activities have focussed on the mitigation of Italian public buildings. They promote the schedul...

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Published inBulletin of earthquake engineering Vol. 17; no. 10; pp. 5679 - 5700
Main Authors Di Ludovico, M., Digrisolo, A., Moroni, C., Graziotti, F., Manfredi, V., Prota, A., Dolce, M., Manfredi, G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.10.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Aseismic buildings
Civil Engineering
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earthquake damage
Earthquakes
Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
Geophysics/Geodesy
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Hydrogeology
Mitigation
Original Research Paper
Public buildings
School buildings
Seismic activity
Seismic design
Sequencing
Structural damage
Structural engineering
Structural Geology
Structural safety
Structures
Surveying
Vulnerability
Italy
Seismic risk
School buildings
Earthquake
Usability and damage assessment
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Summary:The seismic assessment of the vulnerability of existing public structures, especially school buildings, is a crucial issue in seismic prone countries. Recently, several national and regional programs and activities have focussed on the mitigation of Italian public buildings. They promote the scheduling of public buildings’ structural safety assessment and, when needed, the design and execution of strengthening interventions. Nevertheless, the three strong earthquakes that occurred in the last decade in Italy, Abruzzo (2009), Emilia (2012), and Central Italy (2016), confirmed the vulnerability of school buildings and the social importance of their quick re-opening after a damaging earthquake. In the present paper, the activities carried out on 1514 school building structures in the aftermath of the 2016 Central Italy earthquake sequence are reported and analysed. According to survey data collected by post-earthquake usability inspections, the paper analyses the school buildings characteristics, damage level and extent to structural and non-structural components as well as the correlation between seismic intensity and observed damage.
ISSN:1570-761X
1573-1456
DOI:10.1007/s10518-018-0332-x