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Technologies for Seismic Safety Management of Existing Health Facilities

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Safety of health facilities is only partially related to the performance of primary structural members. Stiffness and ductility are relevant for life safety of occupants but they have limited influence on the resilience of the system. Thus, modern seismic codes provide strict requirements to structural and non-structural components. They are aimed at ensuring that the system remains fully operational in the case of frequent earthquakes. Electro-mechanical and medical equipments, tanks and distribution systems, heat, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, elevators and power supply systems have a predominant position in the safety hierarchy over the mechanical performance of structural members. In the present paper the opportunities provided by state-of-the-art monitoring technologies for seismic safety management of existing health facilities are investigated. Attention is focused on the implementation of a methodology able to cover the needs of knowledge, storage and monitoring of crucial information and physical data by taking advantage of the most recent developments in sensing, data acquisition and processing. This is not a trivial task, since system resilience depends also on the ability of inspectors and managers to integrate theoretical evaluations and interpretation of field measurements.

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Acknowledgments The present study is related to the activities issued by the ASREM Molise Director General Dr. Angelo Percopo on the complex of the P.O. Cardarelli in Campobasso. The Authors wish to thank Dr. Eng. G. Gallina and Dr. Arch. G. Getuli for their contribution in the context of the validation of available seismic assessment data of the above mentioned Health Facility and their valuable support in the definition of operational conditions of structural and non-structural components. In addition, collaboration with ReLUIS Consortium research groups active in the framework of Line 2.2 Special Systems of the ReLuis-DPC Executive Project 2010–2013 “RELUIS II”, rep. 823 is also gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Structural and Geotechnical Dynamics Laboratory StreGa, University of Molise, Via Duca degli Abruzzi, 86039, Termoli, Italy

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    Randall Allemang

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Rainieri, C., Fabbrocino, G. (2013). Technologies for Seismic Safety Management of Existing Health Facilities. In: Allemang, R., De Clerck, J., Niezrecki, C., Wicks, A. (eds) Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6546-1_20

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