Abstract
Similar to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) FEMA 154 method in the United States, which provides a rapid on-site survey method for building data to assess vulnerability indices and offers the RSV App mobile electronic form, this paper proposes the development of a mobile application for the visual rapid screening method for the Brazilian community of engineers and inspectors to assess the seismic vulnerability of existing structures. The simplified qualitative method adopted in the application originates in Japan, and a similar initiative was observed in that country at the symposium "Future of post-disaster assessment for buildings"; however, such an application was not found. Considering that the evaluation is carried out on-site, the application aims to facilitate the rapid screening process and disseminate the use of the method. Seismic-V was developed based on the Dart programming language and the Flutter framework. The Android Studio Giraffe IDE (Integrated Development Environment) | 2022.3.1 Patch 3 was chosen. Among the functionalities, it allows the structural verification for the five seismic zones with soil classes recommended in NBR 15.421. The user is required to provide real structural deterioration conditions, data, and structural characteristics such as number of floors, number of pillars, and respective cross-section that will support the seismic performance sub-index. Other features will be discussed in the paper and, at the end, a comparison will be developed between the results issued by the application and those calculated manually, with a discussion of the results. The proposal is relevant given the speed of application of the method and the initial screening that helps to prioritize existing buildings in future quantitative analytical approaches.
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