• Corpus ID: 201915735

A Rapid-Visual-Screening Methodology for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Historic Brick-Masonry Buildings in Vienna

@inproceedings{Achs2012ARM,
  title={A Rapid-Visual-Screening Methodology for the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Historic Brick-Masonry Buildings in Vienna},
  author={G{\"u}nther Achs and Christoph Adam},
  year={2012}
}

• G. Achs, C. Adam
• Published 2012
• Engineering

This paper addresses seismic vulnerability assessment of historic brick-masonry buildings located in the city of Vienna based on Rapid-Visual-Screening (RVS). The RVS methodology has been adopted for this specific type of buildings considering their consistent typology and consequently, enhancing the validity and quality of the seismic assessment. In this connection two parameters of the inspected object are evaluated, i.e. the damage relevance and an overall structural parameter. Based on the derived score of these parameters the building is classified into one of four vulnerability classes. In a large-scale in-situ investigation a set of 375 buildings within the 20 th district of Vienna has been seismically assessed. The resulting vulnerability map gives useful information for emergency and evacuation planning as well as for identification of critical objects vulnerable to seismic loading.