Engineering Applications
In addition to the products described in the Engineering Requirement section and to the overall impact expected in the engineering and industry communities, SHARE will contribute to the development of two specific applications:
Definition of a consensus reference European seismic hazard zonation
At present, each nation of Europe has its own seismic hazard zonation as input for the building code. These maps have been obtained independently in each country and reveal serious discrepancies at border (up to 50% in reference PGA values).
Contribution of SHARE: SHARE will draw a consensus reference zonation of the European territory, to serve as a reference for the homogeneous national mapping of the anchoring peak acceleration on rock, required for the definition of the National Annexes to EN 1998-1 in preparation for the full application of for Eurocode 8. While this new pan-European mapping will not be binding for the application, it will nonetheless provide the first uniform European reference.
Risk scenarios
Exposure data and vulnerability assessment methods have been developed and fine-tuned over the recent years in previous European projects (e.g., FP5 Risk-UE and FP6 LESSLOSS). A number of projects have also focussed on developing risk scenario assessment capabilities.
Expected progress and measures of success
Contribution of SHARE: A set of trial risk assessment applications at large geographical scales will be carried out, in order to obtain an appreciation of what may be the implications, in terms of risk to human life and direct/indirect financial losses, of the introduction of the new hazard models and definitions developed in SHARE.
