id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 9306sx64h4g David Pirchio Unreinforced Masonry Italian Medieval Churches: A Holistic Framework for Seismic Risk Assessment from the National Scale to the Building Scale 2020 .txt text/plain 329 7 -2 The following goals of the seismic risk assessment were targeted in this study:- Developing an appropriate and cost-efficient methodology for seismic risk assessments for large portfolios of churches;- Quantifying the exposure and consequence components of risk by recording occupancy rates, heritage components, and equivalent replacement value of the churches;- Developing a risk ranking of churches surveyed in order to assist stakeholders by prioritizing churches for futher detailed assessment and potentially retrofit intervention;- Contributing to the innovation of engineering investigation techniques by introducing a rapid and reliable assessment methodology both on a regional or national scale, as well as on a higher resolution building scale;- Recording in a rapid and dependable way the geometry and material properties with respect to complex URM churches when the lack of architectural and structural drawing represents a significant obstacle to assessment; and- Developing a structural modeling approach for complex URM churches that is accessible by a significant portion of the practicing engineering community, based on the availability of the software utilized and the simplification of the robust analytical methods. cache/9306sx64h4g.txt txt/9306sx64h4g.txt