Performance of the health facilities during the 2012 Emilia (Italy) earthquake and analysis of the Mirandola hospital case study

Masi, Angelo; Santarsiero, Giuseppe; Gallipoli, Maria Rosaria; Mucciarelli, Marco; Manfredi, Vincenzo; Dusi, A.; Stabile, Tony Alfredo

doi:10.1007/s10518-013-9518-4

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“…Losses of life and property, as well as the functional interruptions of critical facilities, demonstrate that the seismic performance of such facilities is inadequate and design recommendations are urgently needed (Figure ). Seismic response of nonstructural components has been studied for more than two decades; nevertheless, only in very recent times, the attention has been focused on hospital equipment . Even though the use of the performance‐based seismic design is still very limited, it is increasing for modern and newly constructed hospital buildings.…”

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“…When it is implemented, nonstructural components and building contents are designed and assessed by accounting for their seismic performance. For existing hospital buildings, which were primarily designed and constructed according to out‐of‐date regulations, the seismic vulnerability of nonstructural components is of paramount importance . Thus, nonstructural components and medical equipment tend to experience significant undesirable damage when subjected to low‐to‐medium magnitude earthquakes.…”

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Experimental assessment of the seismic performance of hospital cabinets using shake table testing

Sarno

Magliulo

D’Angela

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Earthq Engng Struct Dyn

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Summary An experimental investigation of hospital building equipment is presented. Dynamic properties and seismic performance of typical ambulatory freestanding cabinets are assessed by unidirectional and bidirectional shake table tests, also considering the presence of internal partitions and cabinet contents. Vulnerability analysis is performed according to the most recent and reliable assessment methods, evaluating the influence of different parameters of the sample cabinets. The performance criteria referred within this research are the limit states reached by the specimens (ie, rocking and overturning) and by their contents (ie, overturning and breaking). Fragility curves are evaluated for the components and the contents, considering both acceleration and velocity intensity measures, and also using dimensionless intensity measures developed in recent studies. The outcomes of the present study confirm the findings of previous laboratory tests and numerical simulations carried out by the same authors and provide a further insight for the reliable seismic performance assessment of hospital cabinets and their contents.

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Experimental assessment of the seismic performance of hospital cabinets using shake table testing

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Magliulo

D’Angela

et al. 2018

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“…This event started a long seismic sequence, culminating in a second M w 5.8 strong shock on 29 May 2012 followed by several aftershocks. The two strongest events of the sequence caused structural and nonstructural damage to residential, industrial, and public buildings as well as 27 fatalities [ Masi et al , ]. The 20 May earthquake occurred on the western segment of the Middle Ferrara fault, while the 29 May earthquake nucleated about 10 km to the southwest of the 20 May event epicenter and occurred on the Mirandola fault, which bounds the Cavone oil field from the north [ Juanes et al , ] (see Figure ).…”

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Current challenges in monitoring, discrimination, and management of induced seismicity related to underground industrial activities: A European perspective

Grigoli

Cesca

Priolo

et al. 2017

Reviews of Geophysics

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Due to the deep socioeconomic implications, induced seismicity is a timely and increasingly relevant topic of interest for the general public. Cases of induced seismicity have a global distribution and involve a large number of industrial operations, with many documented cases from as far back to the beginning of the twentieth century. However, the sparse and fragmented documentation available makes it difficult to have a clear picture on our understanding of the physical phenomenon and consequently in our ability to mitigate the risk associated with induced seismicity. This review presents a unified and concise summary of the still open questions related to monitoring, discrimination, and management of induced seismicity in the European context and, when possible, provides potential answers. We further discuss selected critical European cases of induced seismicity, which led to the suspension or reduction of the related industrial activities.

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“…[9]). In other cases, a permanent period shift accompanied by damage was observed during Molise earthquake, 2002 [24], Emilia earthquake, 2012 [25], in the above-mentioned cases the buildings had already suffered damage before the installation of the monitoring system. Dunand et al [19], Ditommaso et al [17] and Vidal et al [26] have quantified the permanent period elongation related to different damage states on large sets of buildings during Boumerdes, Abruzzo and Lorca earthquakes respectively, in each case the period elongation for the red classified buildings being about 50-70%.…”

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Fundamental period elongation of a RC building during the Pollino seismic swarm sequence

Gallipoli

Stabile

Guéguen

et al. 2016

Case Studies in Structural Engineering

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a b s t r a c tA primary school in Rotonda was monitored during an on-going seismic sequence in the Pollino area, Southern Italy. The Reinforced Concrete (RC) building is a typical three story building with a concrete frame, bearing pre-cast slab flooring, concrete block internal walls and pre-cast external infill slabs. The monitoring began in September 2011 with a single station on top of the building, and after the M L = 5 mainshock occurred in October 2012 a network was completed with accelerometers on each floor and real-time streaming data was transmitted to the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale (UdineNorthern Italy). The school suffered no visible damage during the sequence. The real-time monitoring of the Rotonda school proved to be important for two reasons: (1) the large range of magnitudes and recorded peak accelerations allowed the study of the non-stationary frequency response; (2) the results also show how a simple, real-time monitoring system using cost-effective accelerometers could be used as a tool to provide information on the damage state and usability of the school.

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Performance of the health facilities during the 2012 Emilia (Italy) earthquake and analysis of the Mirandola hospital case study

Cited by 39 publications

References 21 publications

Experimental assessment of the seismic performance of hospital cabinets using shake table testing

Experimental assessment of the seismic performance of hospital cabinets using shake table testing

Current challenges in monitoring, discrimination, and management of induced seismicity related to underground industrial activities: A European perspective

Fundamental period elongation of a RC building during the Pollino seismic swarm sequence

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