Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
28 May 2010, 2:35 pm - 2:50 pm
Abstract
The present paper summarizes the original approach, the different stages, the innovative algorithms and the most interesting results of a new, “simplified procedure” for mapping Earthquake Vulnerability in urban areas. The devised procedure is based on the processing data generated by “Remote Sensing Techniques”, for the design and the construction of two different square matrixes: Building Vulnerability Matrix and Soil Vulnerability Matrix. Combination of mathematical classification procedures and matrix analysis techniques have been designed and implemented, for creating the “basic models” of the mentioned matrixes, together with the related algorithms, “ad hoc” devised. The classes and the groups generated within the described two basic matrixes are merged all together into a designed Urban Vulnerability Matrix. Further matrix calculations are performed, generating new “Earthquake Vulnerability Zones”. It will then be possible, from such matrix, to construct an Urban Earthquake Vulnerability Zoning Map . Finally, the author presents the results of the first case-history of the described new “simplified procedure”: the first practical implementation has been carried out in a small town, in a high seismic area of southern Italy.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2010 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Ciuffi, Filippo, "An Innovative Procedure for the Rapid Mapping of Urban Earthquake Vulnerability" (2010). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 2.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/05icrageesd/session14/2
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An Innovative Procedure for the Rapid Mapping of Urban Earthquake Vulnerability
San Diego, California
The present paper summarizes the original approach, the different stages, the innovative algorithms and the most interesting results of a new, “simplified procedure” for mapping Earthquake Vulnerability in urban areas. The devised procedure is based on the processing data generated by “Remote Sensing Techniques”, for the design and the construction of two different square matrixes: Building Vulnerability Matrix and Soil Vulnerability Matrix. Combination of mathematical classification procedures and matrix analysis techniques have been designed and implemented, for creating the “basic models” of the mentioned matrixes, together with the related algorithms, “ad hoc” devised. The classes and the groups generated within the described two basic matrixes are merged all together into a designed Urban Vulnerability Matrix. Further matrix calculations are performed, generating new “Earthquake Vulnerability Zones”. It will then be possible, from such matrix, to construct an Urban Earthquake Vulnerability Zoning Map . Finally, the author presents the results of the first case-history of the described new “simplified procedure”: the first practical implementation has been carried out in a small town, in a high seismic area of southern Italy.
