The Characteristic and Earthquake Damage of Single-Storey Industry Workshop of Mianzhu City in Wenchuan Earthquake

Abstract eng:
A strong earthquake of M8.0 occurred at 14:28 on May 12, 2008(local time) in WenChuan County of Sichuan Province (north latitude 31.0°, longitude 103.4°). The intensity of epicenter reached Ⅺ degree. Six province or city including Sichuan, Gansu, Shangxi, Chongqing, YunNan and NingXia suffered vary extent damage by the earthquake. Wenchuan earthquake was the strongest in China since 1949 and the seismic disaster is particularly serious. Until at 12:00 on July 15, 2008, Wenchuan earthquake has caused 69,197 deaths and 374,176 injuries, 18,263 missing. The characteristic and earthquake damage of single-storey industrial buildings of Mianzhu City are specially introduced in this paper. General classification of industry building in affected area includes single-storey brick column workshop, single-storey reinforced concrete column workshop and single-storey steel column workshop. And the typical earthquake damage of buildings is analyzed. The earthquake damage shows the industry buildings that well anti-earthquake designed are damaged more slightly than those without anti-earthquake designed.

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