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The paper examines the database of severely damaged buildings after L’Aquila, collecting information of repair and retrofit costs as well as the final decision on reparability or demolition and reconstruction; 122 out of 472 severely damaged RC buildings were demolished. It illustrates the most important factors influencing demolition decisions for Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings. A logistic regression is performed to estimate the probability of demolition pdem for building typologies.

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This page is a summary of: Post-earthquake reconstruction: A study on the factors influencing demolition decisions after 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, February 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2017.12.007.
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