Overview
This page will build on the example that is presented in the Bridge Fragility page. Now that we have a bridge fragility curve, we need to tell MAEviz how to map bridge fragilities to bridges. What we will learn in this section is:
- How to create a bridge fragility mapping file
- How to ingest a bridge fragility mapping file
Create Fragility Mapping
This section will require a very basic understanding of XML and is something that we can help the user with putting together if you contact us by email. The basic concept behind the fragility mapping is to tell MAEviz which bridge fragilities should be used with which bridges. The mapping file allows you to use a specific set of rules to map fragilities to buildings (e.g. if a bridge has a classification of type MSC_Concrete use fragility curve with ID 1). The more bridge attributes you have in your bridge dataset, the more complex mapping you can make. For our case, we will keep this simple and only use the bridge class attribute in our mapping.
Using the example below, we'll go through the various parts of the fragility mapping.