RC Structures III: Topic of the Recent Research on RC Structure

Course Description

(1) Design of Box-Shaped Wall Buildings

(2) Evaluation of Seismic Performance of RC Wall Buildings

Lecturer

Masaomi TESHIGAWARA (Nagoya University)

Days

1 day(s)

Syllabus


(1) AIJ Design Standard of RC Wall Building (Design Specification)
http://www.aij.or.jp/jpn/databox/2004/040414-2.pdf
1) What is RC Box-shaped Wall Building?
2) History
3) Shape, Differences with frame building
4) Wall length ratio
5) Stress analysis
6) Re-bars arrangement
(2) Evaluation of Seismic Performance of RC Wall Buildings
1) Damage of RC wall buildings due to past damaged earthquake
1-1) The 1964 Niigata earthquake
1-2) The 1968 Tokachi-oki earthquake
1-3) The 1975 Ohita-ken Chubu earthquake
1-4) The 1978 Miyagi-ken Oki earthquake
1-5) The 1995 Hyougo-ken Nanbu earthquake
2) Evaluation of Seismic Performance of RC Wall Buildings
2-1) Wall Strength and required wall area
2-2) Required Stiffness.
2-3) Estimate of earthquake response
      Soil-building interaction

Lecture note files of this course can be downloaded.