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Seismic vulnerability and risk analysis of the old building stock at urban scale: application to a neighbourhood in Lisbon

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Abstract

The old buildings represent an important fraction of the urban fabric of the cities, which have implicit societal issues, like safety. This work deals with the seismic vulnerability assessment and risk analysis of the old building stock, with application to a neighbourhood in Lisbon. The studied neighbourhood includes three frequent building typologies in Portugal, i.e. stone masonry, “Placa” and RC buildings. Reference buildings for each typology were numerically modelled using the equivalent frame method. Pushover analysis was then performed to derive the vulnerability characteristics of the reference buildings and more general building classes, i.e. capacity and fragility curves, in order to assess the seismic vulnerability of the buildings and perform a seismic risk analysis. This last analysis was performed to estimate the building damages and the economic and life losses for different earthquake scenarios. Most of the studied buildings are found to be unsafe to the considered seismic actions and will suffer severe damages with associated large losses.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partly financed by FEDER funds through the Competitivity Factors Operational Programme—COMPETE and by national funds through FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology, within the scope of the Project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007633. The study was supported by FCT within ISISE, Project UID/ECI/04029/2013. The authors would like to acknowledge the partial support given to this work within the frame of the Research Project PTDC/ECM/101201/2008, funded by FCT. The Postdoc Grant SFRH/BPD/94677/2013 provided by FCT to the last author is also acknowledged.

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  1. Research Group in Transport, Territory and Sustainable Development (GuITTS), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Paula Lamego

  2. Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Paula Lamego, Paulo B. Lourenço & Rui Marques

  3. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Division (NESDE), National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria L. Sousa

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    Paulo B. Lourenço & Rui Marques

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Lamego, P., Lourenço, P.B., Sousa, M.L. et al. Seismic vulnerability and risk analysis of the old building stock at urban scale: application to a neighbourhood in Lisbon. Bull Earthquake Eng 15, 2901–2937 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-016-0072-8

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