Riskicg v2.4: user and technical manual

Abstract

A Matlab-based seismic risk tool has been developed and named RISKICG. This tool is still in development, but it can provide damage results and economic losses for the general building stock of a city or country and also for the essential facilities as schools, hospitals, emergency response facilities, etc. if they are provided as input information in the files. This can be done by introducing a new census tract and a new building type (if required) corresponding to the location and structure of the facility. This will involve changes in the files builtarea.txt and soilcenter?.txt and others. The code has been written so that the user can introduce most of the needed inputs in a windows environment. The input files are so transparent that they can be easily adjusted to any part of the world, only taking into consideration the possibility of new model building types with other capacity and fragility curves. The m-scripts which form RISKICG are commented so that the user can go through the lines and easily change them if necessary.