You are on page 1of 1

Advanced Earthquake Engineering CIVL-706 June 2012

Rapid Visual Screening

In each of the following cases, what is the cut-off score that you would suggest based on the Basic
Scores found in FEMA154/155 documents.

a. A city in Canton Vaud with a moderate seismic hazard, with a population of 10,000, and a
building inventory of 3000 structures consisted of 44% of unreinforced masonry structures, 40%
of steel frames with or without unreinforced masonry infill walls, and the remaining 16% equally
distributed between wood and concrete constructions.

b. A city in Valais where the distribution of the wood, unreinforced masonry and concrete moment
resisting frame buildings are 65%, 28% and 7%, respectively.

You might also like