RESEARCH ARTICLE
Seismic Vulnerability and Fragility of Existing Italian Industrial Steel Buildings
Antonio Formisano*, Gianmaria Di Lorenzo, Ida Iannuzzi, Raffaele Landolfo
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
Issue: Suppl-5, M7
First Page: 1122
Last Page: 1137
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-11-1122
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501711011122
Article History:
Received Date: 16/01/2017Revision Received Date: 23/05/2017
Acceptance Date: 04/07/2017
Electronic publication date: 29/12/2017
Collection year: 2017

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Abstract
Introduction:
The recent L’Aquila (2009) and Emilia-Romagna (2012) Italian earthquakes have highlighted the vulnerability of recently erected buildings, with particular reference to industrial ones. Although steel buildings have usually demonstrated a good behaviour under earthquakes, with limited damages and rare cases of collapse, they still represent a structural typology at risk due to the significant exposure connected to the importance of the resources they host.
Methods:
In the paper a parametric study on several industrial steel buildings, different for typology, geometrical dimensions, seismic zones and snow geographic areas, has been done through pushover analyses.
Results and Conclusion:
The results have allowed to plot vulnerability curves, which have been compared to seismic fragility curves derived from literature observational studies. The comparison among curves has allowed to estimate the effectiveness of the literature fragility studies, as well as to evaluate the seismic damages suffered by investigated structures under dissimilar grade earthquakes.