ABSTRACT
The literature shows some approaches estimating the failure probability of industrial facilities caused by many types of natural events, such as lightning, earthquake, flooding, etc. (Antonioni et al., 2007), but only few works investigate the effects of volcanic eruptions on industrial structures and infrastructures. Significant contributions are those due to the following authors: Spence et al. (2004) evaluated the vulnerability of buildings to pyroclastic flows; Baxter et al. (1982) analysed the reduction of functionality of water treatment systems (either industrial or civil installation); Milazzo and co-authors analysed the fragilities of atmospheric storage tanks (Milazzo et al., 2013a) and filtering systems (Milazzo et al., 2013b) to volcanic ash fallout, then, they also developed procedures for the vulnerability mapping (Milazzo et al., 2013c).
