A methodology for landslide damage assessment

This article focuses on an original methodology for landslide damage assessment of either masonry or reinforced concrete ordinary buildings at the urban scale. In the first step of the methodology, an analysis of the crack patterns is quickly performed for all the buildings by means of the Load Path Method (Schlaich et al., 1987). The second step consists in the filling in of new survey damage forms and it ends with the creation of a landslide damage geotechnical chart of the region under study. This chart includes geomorphological data together with both the damage grade of the buildings and the direction of the possible settlements.