Damage of mussels, mostly corresponding to the severely damaged category, was less than 5% both in samples from dredging and diving.
Y1 refers to the not damaged category, Y2 refers to the moderately damaged category, and Y3 refers to the collapsed category.
The result of the damage analysis is a specific damage category adaptable to the cantonal context (for example, 30 100 casualties, 10 30 km2 of damaged agricultural crop land).
Of course, the notion of what is "meaningful" might carry just as much vagueness as the damages category itself, and the research team is not fully explicit on what makes a number meaningful in a trial context.
The objective of this paper is to study the effect of the properties of masonry buildings on the threshold values of the deflection ratio, which is used to assess the damage category of buildings.
This led to the present work which consists in the evaluation of the TNT equivalent charge of the explosion using the concept of damage category developed by UK engineers based on the WWII damaging bombing data.
In the barely visible damage category, the composite facesheet layers attached to the foam experience a tension failure under low energy impact despite surface indications showing no fiber fracture.
It can be seen that the most dominating damage category is the resource category followed by the respiratory (inorganic) category.
Further improvements can be made to scale the damage factor such that a damage category can be identified directly.
The results of normalizing the damage categories (Fig. 6) show that "Ecosystem quality" is the most representative damage category, corresponding to 0.077 European equivalents, followed by "Human health" and "Resources" with 0.015 and 0.0089, respectively.
The multi-vulnerability of buildings was determined by adding the building damage category (average scenario) and population distribution class.
