The main aim of this thesis is to assess the vulnerability of coastal Italian residential masonry buildings under tsunami loads and it represents a contribution in the tsunami risk assessment.
The structural vulnerability of masonry buildings is investigated considering the activation of in-plane and out-of-plane local mechanisms due to flexural and shear failure modes. Several Monte Carlo analyses are performed in order to simulate the behaviour of Italian masonry buildings based on national census database, assuming a regional scale approach.
Furthermore, damage scenarios are evaluated in terms of number of damaged buildings, reconstruction costs and potential casualties, based on structural analyses results, in the case of a tsunami event on the Italian coasts. Inundation and thematic maps are realized in a GIS system.