Seismic vulnerability assessment of RC buildings at compartment scale: the use of CARTIS form

Abstract

Large-scale seismic vulnerability assessment methods allow to classify the vulnerability of groups of buildings according to recurring parameters. The parameters necessary for the application of these methods may come from the adoption of survey forms. The 1st level CARTIS survey form collects the parameters of an area (town compartment) characterized by homogeneity among building types. The variation of the parameters within the same compartment may lead to the definition of several typological-structural groups of buildings, which can be characterized by different vulnerability. Therefore, the assessment of the seismic vulnerability of a compartment requires knowing the distribution of different typologies and their relative structural performance. In this work the vulnerability is evaluated at town compartment level starting from the vulnerability of the RC building typologies, by applying the RE.SIS.TO® method to the data collected from the 1st level CARTIS forms. In particular, a tree chart representation, characterized by variable number of branches depending on the different number of possible choices allowed by CARTIS form, is proposed for data organization of the typological-structural groups of buildings.