Displacement-based assessment of the seismic resistance of unreinforced masonry buildings

在过去的十年里，地震造成了超过1万亿美元的损失和超过10万人的死亡。这种破坏主要发生在无加固砖砌(URM)建筑中，这些建筑构成了包括澳大利亚在内的低地震地区的大部分国内建筑库存。这些建筑的设计是为了抵抗地震地面震动造成的力，而不是位移。该项目将开发一种基于位移的新方法来评估城市轨道交通建筑的抗震性能。研究成果将以改进分析方法的形式出现，用于新建筑的设计和现有建筑的抗震评估和翻新。

Earthquakes have caused over $1,000 billion of damage and more than 100,000 deaths in the last decade. This devastation occurred mainly in unreinforced brick masonry (URM) buildings which constitute the bulk of the domestic building stock in low seismicity regions, including Australia. These buildings were designed to resist forces, not the displacements, caused by earthquake ground shaking. This project will develop a new displacement-based method for assessing the earthquake resistance of URM buildings. Research outcomes will be in the form of improved analytical methods for the design of new buildings and the seismic assessment and retrofit of existing buildings.