Performance of reinforced concrete buildings in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes and seismic design in Japan

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Title (Dublin Core)

en-US Performance of reinforced concrete buildings in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes and seismic design in Japan

Description (Dublin Core)

en-US This report outlines the observations of an NZSEE team of practitioners and researchers who travelled to the Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan on a reconnaissance visit following the April 2016 earthquakes. The observations presented in this report are focussed on the performance of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings throughout Kumamoto Prefecture. It was found overall that modern RC buildings performed well, with patterns of damage which highlighted a philosophy of designing stiffer buildings with less of an emphasis on ductile behaviour. To explore this important difference in design practice, the Japanese Building Standard Law (BSL) is summarised and compared with standard New Zealand seismic design practices and evaluation methods.

Creator (Dublin Core)

Sarrafzadeh, Mehdi

Elwood, Ken J.

Dhakal, Rajesh P.

Ferner, Helen

Pettinga, Didier

Stannard, Mike

Maeda, Masaki

Nakano, Yoshiaki

Mukai, Tomihisa

Koike, Takuya

Publisher (Dublin Core)

en-US New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering

Date (Dublin Core)

2017-09-30

Type (Dublin Core)

info:eu-repo/semantics/article

info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

en-US Article

Format (Dublin Core)

application/pdf

Identifier (Dublin Core)

https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/63

10.5459/bnzsee.50.3.394-435

Source (Dublin Core)

en-US Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering; Vol 50 No 3 (2017); 394-435

2324-1543

1174-9857

Language (Dublin Core)

eng

Relation (Dublin Core)

https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/63/49

Rights (Dublin Core)

en-US https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0