Vulnerability of existing masonry buildings under induced seismicity
Many existing mansonry buildings were not designed to seismic standards in non-seismic areas of the world and are vunerable to seismic actions induced by human activities.
The main industrial activities that generates earthquakes are the following: hydrocarbons storage and extractions, shale gas exploitations, geothermal energy exploitation, mining operations, CO2 sequestration, dams.
Typical buildings are reproduced in the Eucentre laboratories and in the Lisbon laboratories to highlight the crack progression of these type of existing buildings subjected to seismic actions.
Models calibrated with numerical studies were used to design the seismic improvement intervention of the buildings with 3Muri software.