AUTHOR=Novelli Viviana I. , D'Ayala Dina TITLE=Use of the Knowledge-Based System LOG-IDEAH to Assess Failure Modes of Masonry Buildings, Damaged by L'Aquila Earthquake in 2009 JOURNAL=Frontiers in Built Environment VOLUME=5 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/built-environment/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2019.00095 DOI=10.3389/fbuil.2019.00095 ISSN=2297-3362 ABSTRACT=
This article, first, discusses the decision-making process, typically used by trained engineers to assess failure modes of masonry buildings, and then, presents the rule-based model, required to build a knowledge-based system for post-earthquake damage assessment. The acquisition of the engineering knowledge and implementation of the rule-based model lead to the developments of the knowledge-based system LOG-IDEAH (Logic trees for Identification of Damage due to Earthquakes for Architectural Heritage), a web-based tool, which assesses failure modes of masonry buildings by interpreting both crack pattern and damage severity, recorded on site by visual inspection. Assuming that failure modes detected by trained engineers for a sample of buildings are the correct ones, these are used to validate the predictions made by LOG-IDEAH. Prediction robustness of the proposed system is carried out by computing