Earthquakes can have devastating impacts on communities, causing widespread destruction and loss of life. The recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria are examples of their destructive power.
Ground motion simulations are an important resource for understanding how to protect our built cultural heritage assets, e.g. monumental and iconic buildings, especially in regions with limited or no access to real seismic records.
While they have been found to be effective in capturing the spectral and statistical properties of real earthquakes, there are still concerns regarding their ability to reflect the complex behaviour of real earthquakes accurately.
The collaboration between members of the S4H research group (Simon Szabó, Sayed M. S. Hussaini, Dr Shaghayegh K. Naghshsineh and Prof Paulo B. Lourenço) and Dr Marco F. Funari from the University of Surrey, aims to evaluate the range of applicability of the source-based stochastic finite-fault method and site-based stochastic method on monumental masonry structures.
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