Vulnerabilidad sísmica del patrimonio edificado del Centro Histórico de la ciudad de Cuenca: lineamientos generales y avances del proyecto

Abstract

Cuenca is a city with a high seismic threat, vulnerable to earthquakes, in particular its Historic Center, as could be seen in a study of seismic vulnerability carried out, as part of the P-IDB 400 project Seismic threat in the Austro, risk and seismic risk in the City of Cuenca, by the Austro Seismic Network (1999-2002). The work proposed here focuses on a project to update the study of modifications submitted to the GAD-Cuenca in the framework of a cooperation agreement. This project has been limited, in a first phase, to the Historic Center of the city, assuming its approach an advance with respect to the project carried out within the framework of the P-IDB 400 project; This improvement has to do fundamentally with the capacity model of buildings. This article explains this progress in the approach to the problem of seismic vulnerability at territorial level, in the context of the seismic evaluation method used: the Level Two Method of the European RISK-EU project, and more specifically, the Method of Capacity Spectrum In addition, the general guidelines of the project and the advances achieved in relation to the typological characterization of the built heritage, modeling and computational implementation of the Capacity Spectrum Method are presented.