A Methodology to Assess Seismic Risk for Populations of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings

Analytical investigations have shown that due to total risk/loss concept, hazard-loss relationships that are unacceptably scattered for individual building loss calculations can be utilized to estimate risk/loss at regional level. This statement is proven to be valid especially for building populations that possess low-level correlation in terms of their dynamic response characteristics. Furthermore, sensitivity investigations on biased building populations have shown that among investigated parameters, (1) ground motion categories, (2) number of stories, (3) floor aspect ratio and (4) wall area to floor area ratio are the most significant parameters in regional risk/loss calculations.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Erbay, Omer Onur

Contributors dc:contributor

• Abrams, Daniel P.

• Engineering, Civil

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3130912

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/83229