Adriseismic Methodology for Expeditious Seismic Assessment of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
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identifier citation: Buildings 13 (2): 344 (2023)
creator: Predari, Giorgia
creator: Stefanini, Lorenzo
creator: Marinković, Marko
creator: Stepinac, Mislav
creator: Brzev, Svetlana, 1959-
issued: 2025-06-12T18:16:36Z
issued: 2023-01-26
description: The paper describes a novel Adriseismic method for expeditious assessment of seismic risk associated with unreinforced masonry buildings. The methodology was developed for the Adriseismic project of the Interreg ADRION programme, with the aim to develop and share tools for increasing cooperation and reducing seismic risk for six participating countries within the region surrounding the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas. The method is applicable to unreinforced masonry buildings characterised by three main seismic failure mechanisms, namely masonry disintegration, out-of-plane failure, and in-plane damage/failure. Depending on the input parameters for a specific structure, the assessment yields a qualitative output that consists of the masonry quality index, the index of structural response, the level of seismic risk, and the most probable collapse mechanism. Both input and output of the method are applied in the spreadsheet form. The method has so far been applied in urban areas of participating countries in the project, including Mirandola, Italy; Kaštela, Croatia; Belgrade, Serbia. In parallel, the methodology has been validated by performing a detailed seismic assessment of more than 25 buildings, and the results have been compared with the results of the proposed expeditious method. The results show a good correlation between the two methods, for example, the structural response index obtained from the expeditious method and the capacity/demand ratio obtained from the conventional assessment method.
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note: Citation: Predari, G.; Stefanini, L.;Marinkovic´, M.; Stepinac, M.; Brzev,S. Adriseismic Methodology forExpeditious Seismic Assessment ofUnreinforced Masonry Buildings.Buildings 2023, 13, 344. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020344Academic Editor: Rita BentoReceived: 23 December 2022Revised: 19 January 2023Accepted: 23 January 2023Published: 26 January 2023Copyright: © 2023 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).buildingsArticleAdriseismic Methodology for Expeditious Seismic Assessmentof Unreinforced Masonry BuildingsGiorgia Predari 1 , Lorenzo Stefanini 1,* , Marko Marinkovic´ 2 , Mislav Stepinac 3 and Svetlana Brzev 41 Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy2 Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia3 Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia4 Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada* Correspondence: lorenzo.stefanini2@unibo.itAbstract: The paper describes a novel Adriseismic method for expeditious assessment of seismicrisk associated with unreinforced masonry buildings. The methodology was developed for theAdriseismic project of the Interreg ADRION programme, with the aim to develop and share tools forincreasing cooperation and reducing seismic risk for six participating countries within the regionsurrounding the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas. The method is applicable to unreinforced masonrybuildings characterised by three main seismic failure mechanisms, namely masonry disintegration,out-of-plane failure, and in-plane damage/failure. Depending on the input parameters for a specificstructure, the assessment yields a qualitative output that consists of the masonry quality index, theindex of structural response, the level of sei…
has type: Article
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0449112
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/buildings13020344
rights: CC BY 4.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
scholar level: Researcher
subject: unreinforced masonry structures
subject: Adriseismic project
subject: seismic vulnerability assessment
subject: risk prediction
subject: seismic failure mechanisms
subject: existing buildings
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/91347