TY  - JOUR
A1  - Harirchian, Ehsan
A1  - Jadhav, Kirti
A1  - Mohammad, Kifaytullah
A1  - Aghakouchaki Hosseini, Seyed Ehsan
A1  - Lahmer, Tom
T1  - A Comparative Study of MCDM Methods Integrated with Rapid Visual Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing RC Structures
JF  - Applied Sciences
N2  - Recently, the demand for residence and usage of urban infrastructure has been increased, thereby resulting in the elevation of risk levels of human lives over natural calamities. The occupancy demand has rapidly increased the construction rate, whereas the inadequate design of structures prone to more vulnerability. Buildings constructed before the development of seismic codes have an additional susceptibility to earthquake vibrations. The structural collapse causes an economic loss as well as setbacks for human lives. An application of different theoretical methods to analyze the structural behavior is expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, introducing a rapid vulnerability assessment method to check structural performances is necessary for future developments. The process, as mentioned earlier, is known as Rapid Visual Screening (RVS). This technique has been generated to identify, inventory, and screen structures that are potentially hazardous. Sometimes, poor construction quality does not provide some of the required parameters; in this case, the RVS process turns into a tedious scenario. Hence, to tackle such a situation, multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods for the seismic vulnerability assessment opens a new gateway. The different parameters required by RVS can be taken in MCDM. MCDM evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making in several fields. This paper has aimed to bridge the gap between RVS and MCDM. Furthermore, to define the correlation between these techniques, implementation of the methodologies from Indian, Turkish, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) codes has been done. The effects of seismic vulnerability of structures have been observed and compared.
KW  - Erdbebensicherheit
KW  - damaged buildings
KW  - earthquake safety assessment
KW  - soft computing techniques
KW  - rapid visual screening
KW  - seismic risk estimation
KW  - Multi-criteria decision making
KW  - vulnerability assessment
KW  - OA-Publikationsfonds2020
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20200918-42360
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/18/6411/htm
VL  - 2020
IS  - Volume 10, issue 18, article 6411
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -