Rapid Assessment of Vulnerability of Buildings:

Building envelope failure assessment framework for residential communities

subjected to hurricanes
1. This is called building envelope failure assessments
2. Try researching about Herbin AH, Barbato M. Fragility curves for building
envelope components subject to windborned debris impact. J Wind Eng Ind Aerodyn
2012
Development of wind damage bands for buildings
1. Damage band reveals that the wind damage responses of individual 1-3 story bu
ildings
is most easily distinguished in the 43-60 m/s (sustained one-min mean) wind regi
me
and that above 73 m/s sustained one-minute wind speed, 1-3 story buildings
experience near-total destruction of their superstructures, with the damage resp
onse
of the most wind-resistant and least wind-resistant building approaching each ot
her.
UPD Power Point Presentation
Masonry Structures in the Philippines:
1. Concrete Hollow Block
2. Unreinforced Masonry (URM) Walls
3. Unreinforced Adobe (URA) Walls
4. Concrete Hollow Blocks with Wood or Light Metal (MWS)
Methods for Deriving Vulnerability Curves:
1. Empirical
2. Computational
Building Database
Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis
Pressure Distribution Due to Wind
Damage State Evaluation
Probability of Exceedence
Curve-fitting of Lognormal Cumulative Probability Distribution
Computational Fragility Curves
Vulnerability Curve
3. Heuristic
Development of a Rapid Condition Assessment tool for Reinforced Concrete Moment
Resisting Frame Buildings in the Philippines: Structural Component
The RCAsT uses a basic structural score that is modified based on differences in
attributes of the existing building and the base structure. These scores were
derived using fragility curves for locally built structures.

Vulnerability curves are funcitons of the damage ratio and the ground motion
intensity
Fragility curves provide the probability of exceednace of a particular damage
state.
The RCAst structural component has two major parts that are used to assess the
structural condition of the buildings.
The first part uses basic structural hazard score and score modifiers that were
derived using fragility curves for low and mid-rise reinforced concrete fram
buildings in the Philippines. Included in this part is a scre modifier for
near-source earthquakes which is not used in FEMA-154 but included in the
provisions of the NSCP 2010.
Initial basic scores were derived using this definition together with the
fragility curves developed by the UPD-ICE. However since the fragility curves
used in the derivation were different from the ones used in HAZUS, the
resulting scores were too small and the score modifiers were not meaningful.
Basic structural hazard score modifiers
1. eleveation of the structure
2. irregularities present in the structural configuration
3. code used in the design of the structure
4. soil profile type
5. nearness to a fault line
Fragility curves developed by UPD-ICE for CHB is based on a compilation of
empirical observations of damage for corresponding ground motion intensities in
terms of Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) from past earthquakes in the Philippi
nes.
A SCHEMA TO CATEGORISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN AUSTRAILIAN FLOODPLAINS
Existing Building Schemes
1. United Nations' Global Assesment of Risk: Global
2. Hazus-MH: United States of America
3. RiskScape: New Zealand
4. Earthquake Damage Analysis Center: Germany
5. Greater Metro Manila Area Risk Assessment Project: Philippines