TY  - CONF
ID  - upm20116
UR  - http://oa.upm.es/20116/
A1  - Donaire Ávila, Jesús
A1  - Benavent Climent, Amadeo
A1  - Escobedo Ruiz, Alberto
A1  - Oliver Saiz, E.
A1  - Ramírez Márquez, A.L.
A1  - Feriche Fernández-Castanys, Mercedes
Y1  - 2012///
N2  - The city of Lorca (Spain) was hit on May 11th 2011 by two consecutive earthquakes with 4.6 and 5.2 Mw respectively, causing casualties and important damage in buildings. Lorca is located in the south-east region of Spain and settled on the trace of the Murcia-Totana-Lorca fault. Although the magnitudes of these ground motions were not severe, the damage observed was considerable over a great amount of buildings. More than 300 of them have been demolished and many others are being retrofitted. This paper reports a field study on the damage caused by these earthquakes. The observed damage is related with the structural typology. Further, prototypes of the damaged buildings are idealized with nonlinear numerical models and their seismic behavior 
and proneness to damage concentration is further investigated through dynamic response analyses.
KW  - Lorca earthquake
KW  -  damage concentration
KW  -  seismic input energy
KW  -  field study
KW  -  infill panels
TI  - Damage assessment on building structures subjected to the recent near-fault earthquake in Lorca (Spain)
SP  - 1
M2  - Lisbon, Portugal
AV  - public
EP  - 10
T2  - 15 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
ER  -