A multi-purpose and multi-scale tool for the seismic vulnerability and risk classification of critical buildings, such as schools, is proposed for pre- and post-event decision-making to mitigate the risk and reduce losses. The herein proposed “RiskSchools” system, is capable of performing the seismic risk assessment and grading of school buildings at various scales (district, municipality, region etc.), using (a) a pre-seismic...

We present the results of the forced-vibration experiments performed at the large-scale prototype structure of EuroProteas founded on gravel-rubber mixture (GRM) layers acting as a means of Geotechnical Seismic Isolation (GSI). Three GRM with different rubber content per mixture weight (0%, 10%, and 30%) but the same mean grain size ratio were used as foundation soil. Each GRM-structure system was subjected to harmonic forces...

Large-scale risk analysis is typically performed considering existing fragility curves, calculated in most cases without adequately accounting for local site amplification (SAmp) and soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects. Nevertheless, foundation flexibility and local site effects may lead to a substantial difference in the fragility or loss estimates. Including these effects on the city-scale vulnerability analysis is chal...