Aljawhari, Karim;
Gentile, Roberto;
Galasso, Carmine;
(2023)
Environmental impacts of seismic damage for a case-study reinforced RC building in Italy.
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Proceedings of Proceedings of Conference Earthquake Engineering and Dynamics for a Sustainable Future (SECED 2023).
Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED): Cambridge, UK.
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Abstract
This study evaluates the environmental impacts resulting from the repair of earthquakeinduced damage, considering an older reinforced concrete (RC) frame representative of those built in Italy before the 1970s. Such impacts, expressed in terms of embodied carbon, represent a considerable component of buildings’ life-cycle embodied carbon in seismically-prone regions. Embodied carbon is a metric that measures the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with material extraction, manufacturing, transporting, construction, maintenance, and disposal. The seismic damage sustained by the case-study frame is first evaluated using the FEMA P-58 approach. Specifically, the frame’s nonlinear response is analysed against increasing groundshaking intensities, followed by estimating the damage incurred by its individual components via ad-hoc fragility models. Damage is then converted to embodied carbon by using consequence models specifically derived in this study for Italian structural/non-structural building components. This is accomplished by: 1) collecting environmental-impact data from Italian manufacturers of relevant construction materials and; 2) defining suitable structure-specific damage levels and the required repair work for every component. Results show that the embodied carbon induced by seismic damage throughout the case-study building’s life cycle might exceed 25% of that generated during its initial construction (pre-use phase).
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Environmental impacts of seismic damage for a case-study reinforced RC building in Italy |
| Event: | Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) 2023 conference: Earthquake Engineering and Dynamics for a Sustainable Future |
| Location: | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.seced.org.uk/index.php/seced-2023-proc... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. // © The Author(s), 2023. This article is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial International Licence 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181131 |
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