Fragility curves as a tool for disaster mitigation (state of the art).

Assessing structures relating to their damages due to natural disaster is very important to be conducted. That is because natural disaster such as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and so on, is very unpredictable in magnitude and time occured. Failure in detecting this matte will result to tremendous loss in material and human life. For about two decades, a method for predicting the level of structural damages of a structure is applied by engineers and has been widely studied by many researchers. This paper is aimed to present the development of this method for several types of disasters and structures. The method used is by analysing and comparing the studies conducted by the previous researchers, trying to find the timeline of the development and process of creating fragility curves. The result is very promising to be one of disaster mitigation tools in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]