Seismic vulnerability assessment and characterisation of the buildings on Faial Island, Azores

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-44

  Neves, Filipe ^a,c   Costa, Aníbal ^a   Vicente, Romeu ^a   Oliveira, C Sousa ^b   Varum, Humberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c Campus Universitário de Santiago   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Damage classification; Faial Island, Azores; Masonry buildings; Seismic risk; Seismic vulnerability

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE CLASSIFICATION; FAIAL ISLAND, AZORES; MASONRY BUILDING; SEISMIC RISK; SEISMIC VULNERABILITY;

BUILDINGS; EARTHQUAKES; MASONRY MATERIALS; RATING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RETROFITTING; RISK PERCEPTION;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BUILDING; DATABASE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GIS; RISK FACTOR; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

AZORES; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84855915858     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-011-9276-0     Document Type: Article

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