Vulnerability Assessment of Structures

In compliance with Article 1 of Ordinance No. 302/2019, (Document in Portuguese) of September 12, 2019, LNEC makes the following documents available for download:

• Guideline for seismic safety assessment of existing reinforced concrete buildings (Document in Portuguese);

Seismic safety assessment of existing reinforced concrete buildings (Article published in RPEE, No. 10, July 2019, summarizing the previous Guideline); (Document in Portuguese)

• Methodology for seismic safety assessment of existing buildings based on structural reliability analyses - Reinforced concrete buildings (8943 KB); (Document in Portuguese)
• General aspects of the application in Portugal of Eurocode 8 – Part 3 – Annex C (Informative) – Masonry buildings (Article published in RPEE, No. 12, March 2020); (Document in Portuguese)
• Expedited methods for seismic assessment of masonry buildings with rigid floors (Article published in RPEE, No. 14, November 2020); (Document in Portuguese)
• Expedited methods for seismic assessment of masonry buildings with flexible floors (Article published in RPEE No. 16, July 2021). (Document in Portuguese)