NEW VULNERABILITY MODELS OF TYPICAL BUILDINGS IN URBAN AREAS:
Applications to seismic risk assessment and target retrofitting methodology
About 2BeSafe Project
Interdisciplinary project in the field of earthquake engineering, with a particular focus on assessing the vulnerability of substandard buildings in urban areas that contribute significantly to seismic risk and the possibilities to strengthen them using retrofitting. The project takes a unique and comprehensive approach to mitigate the effects of an earthquake at the prevention stage. Such an innovative approach, using state-of-the-art experimental tests and detailed numerical analysis, allows the identification of the collapse mechanisms of a structure and critical structural elements, and the proposal of new vulnerability models, enabling the development of a new methodology for optimal retrofitting.
Project Objectives
The establishment of research group
The establishment of a new interdisciplinary research group, trained by international centres of knowledge and excellence in the field, as centre for excellence for advanced seismic performance evaluation and retrofit of buildings, and assessment of seismic risk.
Identification of typical building classes with expected high vulnerability
To identify ten most vulnerable building types (5 RC and 5 masonry) in the urban areas of the region which are estimated to be the most vulnerable with regard to seismic risk.
Seismic hazard definition
Define the model of seismic hazard which is applicable to observed region and to choose existing and develop new ground acceleration records and corresponding response spectra accordingly, in order to numerically simulate earthquake loading.
Seismic performance assessment of buildings
To assess seismic performance of selected vulnerable building types to earthquakes of various intensity levels and to determine their vulnerability models, collapse mechanisms and critical structural elements, using advanced numerical models and analysis methods.
Development of methodology for target retrofit and seismic performance assessment of retrofitted buildings
To establish new methodology for target retrofit of substandard buildings and to assess seismic performance of retrofitted buildings.
Project proposals applied for other funding sources
Collaboration with leading researchers in the field that will position the research group as the centre of excellence for advanced assessments of building performance, seismic risk assessments and methodology of target retrofit.
Latest News
18. July 2024.
The 18th World conference in Earthquake Engineering was held from June 30th – July 5th 2024 in Milano, Italy. The majority of the members of the 2BESAFE research group attended the conference and contributed with conference papers related to numerical modelling of structural elements under seismic loads, development of fragility and vulnerability curves of typical buildings, reconstruction campaign and retrofitting measures undertaken after the earthquakes in Croatia in 2020, seismic behaviour of buildings built in row aggregates and seismic risk assessment at urban scale.
15. March 2024.
2BESAFE project lead assof.prof. Mario Uroš gave an invited lecture at the GNP 2024 conference held in Kolašin, Montenegro. The topic was the reconstruction and recovery after the earthquakes in Croatia in 2020.
Members of the research group Romano Jevtić Rundek and Ante Pilipović also attended the conference.
22. November 2023.
2BESAFE research group members and PhD students Romano Jevtić Rundek and Ante Pilipović, along with postdoctoral researcher and research group member Maja Baniček attended the METIS Workshop on site-specific seismic hazard assessment in Bergamo, Italy, from 14th to 15th November 2023. Organized jointly by the METIS project and the GEM foundation, the workshop focused on PSHA, which is a very important topic for the 2BESAFE project for implementing site-specific hazard for ground motion record selection purposes and development of conditional spectra.