A Proposal on the Advanced Simplified Structural Evaluation Method for Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Bangladesh


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The developing countries in the earthquake prone regions in the world are still suffering a lot of casualties as well as building damage. These damages might be caused by inadequate structural design by engineers and/or poor quality control of construction works. In order to contribute to disaster mitigation for existing reinforced concrete buildings in developing countries, the simplified structural evaluation method based on the philosophy of Japanese evaluation standard [2] vis-a-vis the international seismic code[3,4] was developed by Seki (2015) [1]. JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) has been performing the project named “Project for Capacity Development on Natural Disaster Resistant Techniques of Construction and Retrofitting for Public buildings in Bangladesh (CNCRP)” from 2011 to 2015 and now the second phase is ongoing. In this project the seismic evaluation and retrofitting issues are involved and for the screening of the priority of reducing vulnerability against the hundreds of candidate buildings the simplified structural evaluation was developed by Seki(2015)[5] after Seki(2015)[1] for this project. Prior to the detail structural evaluation and the retrofitting work, the more precise new simplified structural evaluation in which the site investigation such as size of structural members, size and location of rebar, concrete compressive strength, etc. was required and developed in this paper and the examples of application were discussed.

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16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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Santiago (CL)
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2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13
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