Abstract:Abstract:In this paper, with reference to an analysis of seismic vulnerability on a territorial scale, we propose a new model for determining the damage in terms of a mean damage grade of a probabilistic nature. The theoretical approach is based on a behavioural analogy between a building and a particle in a dielectric, subjected respectively to an earthquake and a sinusoidal electric field: both phenomena are characterised by a critical value, and both phenomena obey the same rule when the relevant parameters… Show more
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