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Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, International Balkan University, SKOPJE, North Macedonia
Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology - IZIIS, Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia
The application of seismic design codes is crucially important for the seismic safety of the built environment developed in earthquake prone regions. However, there are also buildings built before the introduction of seismic design codes. Seismic risk assessment is a useful process which can help identify the seismic safety of the urban regions with buildings belonging to different periods. Defining the components of seismic risk; hazard, exposure and vulnerability is a very important step in order to obtain reliable seismic risk assessment results. The focus of this research paper is on defining the exposure model attributes in the case study Karposh. Characteristic for the case study is the fact that it consists of buildings built in different periods, before and after the introduction of seismic design codes. There are also buildings which have been structurally modified and resulted with mixed structures. The approach in the definition of the exposure model is based on urban planning aspects as well and the exposure model is defined according to two urban scenarios, scenario 1 - the existing site and scenario 2 - the planned site.
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