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In the performance-based seismic design and evaluation of buildings, the primary focus is generally paid to the structural components and the lateral load resisting system. However, various recent studies for the impact assessment and loss estimation after major earthquakes have shown that the performance of nonstructural components also plays an important role in terms of economy and the continuity of the intended function of the structure. With this realization, the efforts to accurately assess the performance and seismic loss estimation of nonstructural components are becoming increasingly important. This study presents the seismic loss estimation of nonstructural building components including architectural components, building contents and mechanical and electrical components in tall buildings locating in Bangkok (Thailand) and Manila (Philippines). The loss estimation is carried out based on both actual building parameters as well as using parameters prescribed in codes and guidelines. The comparison is presented for three earthquake levels i.e. the Service Level Earthquake (SLE), the Design Basis Earthquake (DBE) and the Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCE). The loss is estimated in terms of direct damage to nonstructural components which can be translated in to economic loss, repair cost, indirect losses, downtime, business interruption losses, and serious injuries and casualties. This assessment results in an improved preparedness and better approaches to minimize the economic and social loss in future earthquake events.
With the development of seismic design of building, the performance of structural components and systems have been focused for load resisting systems, however, nonstructural components are mostly overlooked in structural design analysis. During earthquakes, when the harmonization does not occur between structural and nonstructural parts, nonstructural components which are not considered under seismic resisting requirements are easily more fragile and damaged than structural components. Thus, seismic performance of nonstructural components in buildings is becoming important and evaluated well among engineers and researchers. The issue is viewed as main concern of seismic performance based evaluation since the earthquake happened in San Fernando in 1971. The objective of this study is to assess performance of nonstructural components within tall building locating in Bangkok and Manila respectively under Service Level Earthquake (SLE), Design Based Earthquake (DBE) and Maximum Considered Earthquake (MCE). The seismic performance of nonstructural components can be measured by component damage and this damageability can be translated to losses associating with direct economic losses regarding with direct economic cost, direct social loss in term of serious injuries and casualties, and indirect losses relating with downtime and business interruption loss. Thus, seismic performance based evaluation of nonstructural components under various earthquake levels can produce a well preparedness for nonstructural building components and contents to cope with damage and losses caused by upcoming earthquakes. This study provides that losses resulting from nonstructural damage are higher due to maximum considered earthquake (MCE) than other earthquake levels.
Procedia Economics and Finance
Utilizing Base-isolation Systems to Increase Earthquake Resiliency of Healthcare and School Buildings2014 •
Seismic design codes have evolved over many years in response to improved knowledge from recent research, increasing computational resources and real damage observations after earthquake events. The code provisions remain prescriptive (with implicitly satisfied performance) until recently, and aimed to provide life safety performance level for design basis earthquakes. The explicit consideration of performance in recently developed performance-based design (PBD) has brought a major paradigm shift in the field of earthquake engineering. It is based on the idea that performance levels and objectives of an engineered facility can be quantified and its performance can be predicted analytically. The cost of improved performance can be evaluated to allow rational trade-offs based on life-cycle considerations rather than construction costs alone. A step further, risk-based evaluation quantifies the seismic assessment by developing a ranking scheme for buildings. The seismic hazard, building vulnerability and consequence of failure are explicitly handled in risk-based evaluation. While performance-based engineering focuses on the desired performance of engineered facilities, the concept of "acceptable consequences" in Consequencebased engineering (CBE) attempts to broaden the decision focus from purely technical to an integrated socio-technical systems perspective. It takes into account the potential consequences of earthquakes for society as a whole. Recently another holistic approach "Resilience-based design (RBD)" is also gaining popularity which identifies and mitigates earthquake-induced and multi-hazard risks to enable swift recovery in the aftermath of a major earthquake. This exceeds both code-intended performance objectives and typical performance-based design objectives. RBD requires integrated multidisciplinary design and contingency planning together with performance-based evaluation to ensure that owner's resilience objectives are met. This paper discusses important issues related to latest seismic design approaches and provides an overview of recent developments which led the design philosophy from performance-based to resilience-based depending upon intended outcomes and acceptable consequences.
PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER
Resilience of Critical Structures, Infrastructure, and Communities2017 •
In recent years, the concept of resilience has been introduced to the field of engineering as it relates to disaster mitigation and management. However, the built environment is only one element that supports community functionality. Maintaining community functionality during and after a disaster, defined as resilience, is influenced by multiple components. This report summarizes the research activities of the first two years of an ongoing collaboration between the Politecnico di Torino and the University of California, Berkeley, in the field of disaster resilience. Chapter 1 focuses on the economic dimension of disaster resilience with an application to the San Francisco Bay Area; Chapter 2 analyzes the option of using base-isolation systems to improve the resilience of hospitals and school buildings; Chapter 3 investigates the possibility to adopt discrete event simulation models and a meta-model to measure the resilience of the emergency department of a hospital; Chapter 4 applies the meta-model developed in Chapter 3 to the hospital network in the San Francisco Bay Area, showing the potential of the model for design purposes Chapter 5 uses a questionnaire combined with factorial analysis to evaluate the resilience of a hospital; Chapter 6 applies the concept of agent-based models to analyze the performance of socio-technical networks during an emergency. Two applications are shown: a museum and a train station; Chapter 7 defines restoration fragility functions as tools to measure uncertainties in the restoration process; and Chapter 8 focuses on modeling infrastructure interdependencies using temporal networks at different spatial scales.
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