Dönmez, Kökcan;
Aktaş, Yasemin Didem;
(2023)
Impact of Moisture Decay on Seismic Vulnerability: Haiti’s Wood-FramedVernacular Buildings.
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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2023 (ICMB23).
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Abstract
A major and shallow earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.2 hit Tiburon Peninsula on 14 August 2021, damaging over 137,000 buildings. A hybrid reconnaissance activity was conducted in the aftermath, jointly by EEFIT/StEER/GHI, to evaluate the impact of the event on buildings, infrastructure and communities. The study also included an investigation of the performance of local vernacular homes -wooden frames with infill, which were found to be one of the most vulnerable typologies. Moisture was identified as an agent of damage for 14% of the damage-assessed vernacular housing. This paper examines semi-quantitatively how moisture decay increases the seismic vulnerability of this typology of Haiti.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Impact of Moisture Decay on Seismic Vulnerability: Haiti’s Wood-FramedVernacular Buildings |
| Event: | 2nd International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2023 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14293/icmb230040 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14293/icmb230040 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), as long as the authors and the publisher are explicitly identified and properly acknowledged as the original source. |
| Keywords: | earthquake damage assessment, moisture, vernacular buildings, wood frame, timber, Haiti |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172707 |
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