Towards risk-targeted seismic hazard models for Europe.

ABSTRACT: Standards and Codes of Practice for designing new constructions and for assessing and strengthening existing ones are usually based on uniform hazard maps, where different Limit States (LSs) are associated with different hazard-exceedance probabilities. This approach yields non-homogeneous LS-exceedance probabilities across a territory, thus failing to achieve the goal of uniform risk throughout a territory. Such lack of uniformity stems from estimating the probability of failure using capacity and demand models. If the capacity of new constructions-or the capacity increase of strengthened existing constructions-are designed based on a prescribed hazard-exceedance probability, then the seismic risk depends on both the structure (depending on the design philosophy and corresponding design o

SUBMITTER: Monti G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10318052 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature