Nowadays, natural disasters are more frequents and destructives compared to the past, causing many
deaths and injuries. Existing hospitals are defined essential structures that have the goal to protect the
public health of citizen. They are called to resist not only to the impact of a disaster, but also to be
operational in that case. Operational means that all the components of a health facility such as structures,
architectural elements, contents, lifelines, key staff and the whole organizational system have to be
functional. That objective is a challenge for the existing structures, especially for those built with obsolete
seismic codes and in high seismic hazard areas like Lima. Furthermore, in case of an emergency, health
facilities are called to response as a network in order to be more efficient and resilient. It implies that
hospitals have to be managed not only at small-scale referring to the single hospital, but also at large-scale
referring to the whole health system composed by all the health facilities involved in a determined area.
Transfer of patients, staffs, water and medicines, can be moved under the coordination of a headquarters
in this way.
Starting from a developed health sector contingency plan in case of earthquakes for Lima metropolitan
area, an assessment of the seismic performance of health facilities at large and small scale was carried out.
At large-scale, two exploratory models were developed. The first one adapts to evaluate the basic seismic
response capacity of hospitals, while the second one useful to assess the hospital treatment capacity of
health facilities in the aftermath of a seismic event. Both models were carried out considering structural
and nonstructural building damages using fragility curves provided by international standards, given the
lack of Peruvian curves. Both models were proposed for a case study of 41 hospitals in Lima
metropolitan.
Given the lack of data about Peruvian building fragility curves, for a high rise infilled reinforced
concrete hospital building, fragility curves were developed through the capacity spectrum approach
including record-to-record variability. The method also allowed to to assess at small-scale the seismic
structural performance of the investigate hospital building using the capacity analysis method. / Tesis
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PUCP/oai:tesis.pucp.edu.pe:123456789/13795 |
| Date | 21 March 2019 |
| Creators | Liguori, Nicola |
| Contributors | Tarque, Nicola, Spacone, Enrico |
| Publisher | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Source Sets | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Repositorio de Tesis - PUCP |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess, Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Perú, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/pe/ |
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