Rapid seismic risk assessments are critical to help practitioners, facility stakeholders, architectural heritage superintendence, and insurance companies in their asset management decision-making processes. In particular, the integrity of Italian church portfolio has often been threatened by earthquakes. The includes thousands religious buildings, representing pivotal facilities for community, ...

Risk and resilience assessments have been both widely, but separately, used as tools for guiding policymakers to formulate disaster-risk reduction policies. On the one hand, risk assessment is utilized estimate associated with disasters in terms of operational metrics such monetary or casualties’ loss; on other most analysis assesses represent community an index, without a specific unit metric,...

The structural risk assessment and evaluation process is broken into the steps of Develop knowledge of as-built conditions, Determine local response characteristics, Create mathematical model, Perform global analysis, Determine acceptability, and Select retrofit procedure/Classify per evaluation procedure and each step discussed. These steps, in general, are major topics of their own and only a...

The performance of buildings subjected to earthquake loads has shown that asymmetric structures are caused more extensive damages in comparison with symmetric structures. Hence, the seismic performance of asymmetric structures should be assessed due to future random earthquakes. Reliability-based seismic assessment as one of the tools in performance-based earthquake engineering has been introdu...