Comparison of Fragility Sets to Assess the Effectiveness of Retrofit Interventions on Masonry Buildings in Italy

Abstract

Seismic events that have occurred in Italy in recent decades have shown the significant vulnerability of the Italian building stock. In particular, residential masonry buildings have suffered serious damage, highlighting the need to plan effective mitigation strategies as soon as possible. In this context, this study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of possible retrofit interventions for masonry buildings. Fragility curves of macro-classes of residential masonry buildings have been developed in both as-built and retrofitted conditions within the DPC-ReLUIS agreement (Department of Civil Protection—Network of University Laboratories for Earthquake Engineering). In particular, three sets of fragility curves, developed by the University of Padova (UniPD) and the University of Genova (UniGEa and UniGEb) are discussed and compared herein. The three models show similar estimates of the expected structural improvements for the examined retrofit interventions when applied to the building macro-classes, although some differences, due to the different analysis approaches, can be observed.

Keywords

• seismic risk
• vulnerability model
• fragility curves
• retrofit interventions
• mitigation strategies
• masonry residential buildings