Seismic vulnerability of the Palazzo della Regione Veneto
Seismic vulnerability of the Palazzo della Regione Veneto
Place
Venice (VE), Italy
Client
Regione del Veneto
Year
2017
Volume
approximately 20.000 mc
The building that has been subject of the analysis of seismic vulnerability is the seat of the Veneto Regional Council: a venetian palace built in the 1960s, called “Rio Novo Tre Ponti”. The building features a reinforced concrete framed structure, while all walls, perimetral and internal, are made of brick. The material and historical surveys have been conducted inside while the building was operative and have allowed to obtain a knowledge level of 2.
The building’s vulnerability survey has been conducted paying special attention to the total rotation capability with respect to the chord, an analysis which can only be conducted on reinforced concrete framed structures and aimed at controlling the actual behavior of the nodes. This kind of analysis made it possible to quantify the contribution of structural nonlinearity to seismic resistance, without excessively increasing the computational costs.
- Seismic vulnerability