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GNGTS 2009 SESSIONE <strong>2.3</strong><br />
INDIVIDUATION OF VUNERABILITY PARAMETERS<br />
BY PASSIVE TREMOR MEASUREMENTS<br />
F. Barazza, S. Grimaz, P. Malisan<br />
Dipartimento di Georisorse e Territorio, Università degli Studi di Udine<br />
Observations on the effects of various earthquakes in the world have shown that the presence<br />
of synchronization between the natural frequencies of the ground and the structure, and presence of<br />
torsional modes can increase the damage during an earthquake. So, even buildings designed according<br />
to the latest seismic standard may be called to respond in a more severe way if these effects<br />
occur. To investigate this phenomena, the passive tremor measurements on the ground and on<br />
buildings would be useful. Combined the measure with a FEM modeling information about the<br />
material used to built the structure could be inferred.<br />
Obviously, the simple passive tremor measurement not allowed high accuracy in the forecasting<br />
of seismic behavior. In fact, due to non-linear effects, the behavior of a structure (or a soil) could<br />
be different under an earthquake than a small tremor. The big displacement imposed by a seismic<br />
action cause a reduction of the stiffness of the materials and then a correspond reduction of the natural<br />
frequencies computed in an elastic hypothesis. Anyway if a synchronization ground-structure<br />
in elastic phase exists, then, probably, this condition will persist in a plastic phase too. On contrary,<br />
Fig. 1 - Plan of ground floor and first floor of the school of Corno di Rosazzo (UD), and positioning of the measurements<br />
point.<br />
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