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The student of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) Alexey Pudovkin proposes in its work final degree in Civil Engineering the development of files for rapid assessment of damage to buildings in cases of earthquake.
The study, conducted in English and entitled 'Analysis of the urban fabric of Lorca after the earthquake of 2011: interaction between dangers and the urban and geotechnical configuration of the city', has been led by Professor Salvador García-Ayllón.
"In scenarios such as the one suffered by the city of Lorca, in which, in addition to technical specialists, they participate in the inspection work of firefighters, members of the Red Cross and volunteers, it is important to develop evaluation sheets that are sufficiently detailed to provide reliable information that indicates if a building is safe for its occupants to return to it to sleep or to collect belongings ", explains the author of the work.
However, this need for concreteness, more common in other countries such as Japan or Chile, clashes with the need to have affordable cards so that "a large-scale operation such as the evaluation of many buildings by hundreds of people, sometimes not specialists in the field, can be carried out in an agile and effective way, "adds Pudovkin, so the work raises the importance of developing simple inspection criteria that can be developed through a simple visual inspection.
The civil engineer by the UPCT, a native of Gandia, concludes in his study that the most common damages found in buildings were the so-called 'soft-floor' phenomena, which meant that in many cases the ground floor of the building was practically destroyed while that the first plants in future suffered hardly damages.
Although the most dangerous phenomena found were the so-called 'short pillars', which were for example behind the collapse of a building near the neighborhood of La Viña that caused several victims.
Source: UPCT
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