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Seismic damage and fragility assessment of ancient masonry churches located in central Chile

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An assessment of damage and seismic fragility of historical unreinforced masonry churches located in Chile’s central valley was carried out employing the results of a field survey of 106 ancient churches, after the 2010 Maule earthquake. The observed damage was correlated with recurrent failure mechanisms of unreinforced masonry structures, by taking into account 22 local mechanisms involving macro-elements on these churches. The average damage level suffered by each church was computed considering the global and local behaviors of the structures through a damage index computed as a weighted mean of the levels of damage observed for each mechanism. The results of this damage index method are used to obtain Probability Mass Functions and suitable probabilistic tools are used to propose Empirical Fragility Curves (EFCs) for these structures. The EFCs are directly usable by stakeholders involved in risk assessment aimed to the prioritization of possible future damage mitigation strategies and other decision making processes relative to this historical heritage.

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This work was supported by the National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management CONICYT/FONDAP/15110017, and by the SIBER-RISK Regular Fondecyt Project CONICYT/FONDECYT/1170836. Authors also thank the ECOS-CONICYT Scientific cooperation program project “Multi-risk assessment in Chile and France: Application to seismic engineering and mountain hazards”, ECOS170044 and ECOS action C17U02. Authors also thank the ECOS-CONICYT Scientific cooperation program project “Multi-risk assessment in Chile and France: Application to seismic engineering and mountain hazards”, ECOS170044 and ECOS action C17U02, and the project Cheers. Cultural HEritagE. Risks and Securing activities (ASP693) co-financed by the Interreg VB Alpine Space Programme through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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  1. Department of Architecture, University of Florence, Piazza Brunelleschi, 50121, Florence, 6, Italy

    Nuria Chiara Palazzi & Luisa Rovero

  2. Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Nuria Chiara Palazzi, Cristián Sandoval & Juan Carlos de la Llera

  3. National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management CIGIDEN, CONICYT/FONDAP/15110017, Santiago, Chile

    Nuria Chiara Palazzi & Juan Carlos de la Llera

  4. University Grenoble Alpes, INRAE, 38402, Saint-Martin-d’Hères, LESSEM, France

    Philomene Favier

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Palazzi, N.C., Favier, P., Rovero, L. et al. Seismic damage and fragility assessment of ancient masonry churches located in central Chile. Bull Earthquake Eng 18, 3433–3457 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-020-00831-1

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