Seismic assessment of district office buildings under 2016 Meinong earthquake in Taiwan
Journal
11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2018, NCEE 2018: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy
Journal Volume
9
Pages
5546-5556
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Abstract
After the 2016 Meinong Earthquake in Taiwan, the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) and Degenkolb Engineers formed a reconnaissance team to survey the earthquake-damaged buildings. Three district office buildings were investigated during the reconnaissance. Those buildings were constructed according to typical drawings and share a similar structural type. However, the three buildings experienced different levels of damage during the 2016 Meinong Earthquake. To learn lessons from the earthquake, assessment of the seismic performance of the three buildings is needed. For the evaluation of the seismic performance of existing buildings, US engineers usually adopt ASCE/SEI 41-13 provisions. However, the engineers in Taiwan are familiar with the NCREE nonlinear static pushover analysis method to evaluate seismic performance. The objective of this paper is to assess the seismic performance of the three district office buildings using the NCREE approach. Copyright ? NCEE 2018: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy.All rights reserved.
Subjects
Earthquake engineering; Engineering geology; Engineers; Office buildings; Seismic waves; Nonlinear static pushover analysis; Seismic assessment; Seismic Performance; Structural type; Earthquakes
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Type
conference paper