Data on Earthquake Engineering Reported by Researchers at University of Naples Federico II (A Component-level Methodology To Evaluate the Seismic Repair Costs of Infills and Services for Italian Rc Buildings)

2020 OCT 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Engineering Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Engineering - Earthquake Engineering. According to news reporting out of Naples, Italy, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The reliable estimation of seismic losses due to damage to buildings is paramount for the post-emergency management and the planning of recovery activities. For residential reinforced concrete (RC) infilled buildings, a significant role in the computation of seismic loss is played by non-structural components, above all infills, partitions and services, as shown in past earthquakes.”

Financial support for this research came from Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II within the CRUICARE Agreement.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Naples Federico II, “In this work, a component-based methodology is proposed to assess seismic losses for residential RC buildings in Mediterranean region. The attention is focused on the repairing activities for masonry infills (typical enclosure or partitions elements in Italian and Mediterranean RC buildings), and for services (plumbing systems, electric equipment, floor/wall tiles horizontal ellipsis ), commonly enclosed within the infill panels for the considered building typology. The described methodology can be used starting from the expected damage level to infills and partitions. It adopts given repair unit costs at different damage states of infills. The loss estimation methodology has been, first, validated by comparing predicted and actual repair costs for specific case-study buildings damaged by L’Aquila (Italy) 2009 earthquake. Then, the methodology has been applied to a wide dataset of RC buildings (about 2500 residential buildings) damaged by L’Aquila earthquake available from the literature, to show its possible application at a large-scale level.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “A good agreement between observed and predicted costs is obtained both for specific case-study buildings and for the wider building stock, especially when damage to structural components is very limited.”

For more information on this research see: A Component-level Methodology To Evaluate the Seismic Repair Costs of Infills and Services for Italian Rc Buildings. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2020;():. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering can be contacted at: Springer, Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 Gz Dordrecht, Netherlands. (Springer - www.springer.com; Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1570-761x/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Carlo Del Gaudio, University of Naples Federico II, Dept. of Structural Engineering & Architecture, Via Claudio 21, I-80125 Naples, Italy. Additional authors for this research include Maria Teresa De Risi and Gerardo Mario Verderame.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-020-00944-7. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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