Increasing the resilience of developing cities to ground shaking in earthquakes

该项目旨在研究如何提高建筑环境在地震中对地面震动的恢复能力。该项目将把重点放在中亚和高加索地区快速发展的城市。将开发新的技术来估计这些城市在当前建筑存量和假设的未来基础设施项目的生命周期内的地面运动的大小和概率。然后，这些建筑物的特征将被用来估计地面震动的结构影响，并量化相关的经济和社会风险。然后将制定建筑策略，以减轻地面震动带来的风险。这项工作与EPSRC资助的EEFIT方案密切相关。

This project aims to research ways to increase the resilience of the built environment to ground shaking in earthquakes. The project will focus on the rapidly developing cities in central Asia and the Caucasus region. Novel techniques will be developed to estimate the magnitudes and probabilities of ground motion in these cities over the lifespans of the current building-stock, and hypothetical future infrastructure projects. The characteristics of these buildings will then be used to estimate the structural effects of ground shaking, and quantify the associated economic and societal risks. Building strategies will then be developed to mitigate the risks posed by the ground shaking. This work is closely aligned with the EPSRC-funded EEFIT programme.