ABSTRACT
The assessment of the structural vulnerability for existing buildings in Italy is a key aspect for the seismic risk reduction, in particular for strategic and relevant buildings, because of their importance for the civil protection. In case of a wide sample of buildings, the use of empirical methods is necessary in order to obtain a first screening of the buildings and to delineate a vulnerability classification, which can be used as a priority list for further detailed analyses. In order to reduce the seismic risk for the Italian built asset, it is important to focus on the vulnerability assessment, trying to highlight the objects which could show the most critical conditions in case of a seismic event. The method is used to get a classification of vulnerability of the analyzed structures: the ranking is a useful instrument for the Administrations, in order to decide which structures should be better analyzed at first by means of detailed analyses.
