A Study on the Application of EQS bearings for the Seismic Isolation of Building Structures by ICT Case study

With over 50 million students, Indonesia has the fourth largest education system in the world. The first twelve years of education are compulsory for all citizens. The students, together with over 3 million teachers spend six (or five in some cases) days a week at over 300,000 schools, typically from 6:30 AM to 2 (or 3) PM. Geographically, Indonesia is traversed by the infamous “ring of fire” and prone to natural events resulting from the tectonic plate movements of the Australian Plate from the South, the Eurasian and Sunda Plates from the North and the Philippine Plate from the East. Left unmitigated, these natural events would lead to natural disasters emanating from resulting earthquakes and leading to tsunamis, landslides, the collapse of building structures and failure of lifelines (roads, pipelines, electrical grid, etc.). In an effort to provide disaster-safe schools, the National Agency for Disaster Management has required that school facilities be a community center in case of disasters and serve as emergency shelters. Retrofit of existing buildings will be needed to comply with government guidelines. This paper presents a case study of the determination of structural deficiencies of an existing school building in SDN 42 Korong Gadang, Padang, West Sumatra and implementation of a seismic retrofit (design and construction) at the same building to mitigate potential earthquake disaster.

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Effect of blast loading and resulting progressive failure of a cable-stayed bridge

SN Applied Sciences ◽

10.1007/s42452-021-04145-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Ravi Mudragada ◽

S. S. Mishra

Keyword(s):

Progressive Failure ◽

Blast Resistance ◽

Progressive Collapse ◽

Building Structures ◽

Structural Elements ◽

Blast Loads ◽

Cable Stayed Bridge ◽

Bridge Performance ◽

Cable Stayed Bridges

AbstractMany researchers have carried out experimental and numerical investigations to examine building structures’ response to explosive loads. Studies of bridges subjected to blast loads are limited. Hence, in this study, we present a case study on a cable-stayed bridge, namely, Charles River Cable-Stayed Bridge-Boston, to assess its robustness and resistance against the progressive collapse resulting from localized failure due to blast loads. Three different blast scenarios are considered to interpret the bridge performance to blast loads. To monitor the progressive failure mechanisms of the structural elements due to blast, pre-defined plastic hinges are assigned to the bridge deck. The results conclude that the bridge is too weak to sustain the blast loads near the tower location, and the progressive collapse is inevitable. Hence, to preserve this cable-stayed bridge from local and global failure, structural components should be more reinforced near the tower location. This case study helps the designer better understand the need for blast resistance design of cable-stayed bridges.

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Seismic Performance Assessment of Existing Steel Buildings: A Case Study

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.763.1067 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 763 ◽

pp. 1067-1076 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Luigi di Sarno ◽

Fabrizio Paolacci ◽

Anastasios G. Sextos

Keyword(s):

Numerical Study ◽

Central Italy ◽

Steel Structures ◽

Eurocode 8 ◽

Building Structures ◽

Steel Buildings ◽

Seismic Performance Assessment ◽

Masonry Infills ◽

Main Shocks

Numerous existing steel framed buildings located in earthquake prone regions world-wide were designed without seismic provisions. Slender beam-columns, as well as non-ductile beam-to-column connections have been employed for multi-storey moment-resisting frames (MRFs) built before the 80’s. Thus, widespread damage due to brittle failure has been commonly observed in the past earthquakes for steel MRFs. A recent post-earthquake survey carried out in the aftermath of the 2016-2017 Central Italy seismic swarm has pointed out that steel structures may survive the shaking caused by several main-shocks and strong aftershocks without collapsing. Inevitably, significant lateral deformations are experienced, and, in turn, non-structural components are severely damaged thus inhibiting the use of the steel building structures. The present papers illustrates the outcomes of a recent preliminary numerical study carried out for the case of a steel MRF building located in Amatrice, Central Italy, which experienced a series of ground motion excitations suffering significant damage to the masonry infills without collapsing. A refined numerical model of the sample structure has been developed on the basis of the data collected on site. Given the lack of design drawings, the structure has been re-designed in compliance with the Italian regulations imposed at the time of construction employing the allowable stress method. The earthquake performance of the case study MRF has been then investigated through advanced nonlinear dynamic analyses and its structural performance has been evaluated according to Eurocode 8-Part 3 for existing buildings. The reliability of the codified approaches has been evaluated and possible improvements emphasized.

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Flexibility In Construction Building Structures- A Case Study

Industrial Engineering & Management ◽

10.4172/2169-0316.1000229 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 06 (04) ◽

Author(s):

Rashmi Shahu

Keyword(s):

Building Structures

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Evaluation of the performance of high-rise building structures with plan ‘H’ shaped for earthquake with height increase (Case study: Apartment Urban Sky-Bekasi)

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/878/1/012053 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 878 (1) ◽

pp. 012053

Author(s):

E Nehe ◽

P Simanjuntak ◽

S P Tampubolon

Keyword(s):

Building Structures ◽

Output Data ◽

High Rise ◽

Earthquake Force ◽

Earthquake Resistant ◽

Height Increase ◽

Design Earthquake ◽

Story Building ◽

Industrial Center

Abstract Currently, Bekasi City is developing into a residence for an urban, industrial center, and built apartments. One of them is the Urban Sky-Bekasi Apartment. This researched raises by an apartment as a case study to evaluate the performance of multi-story building structures as earthquake-resistant buildings. This researched conduct by add the original building height to 8 m (a basic height equals 102 m and a new height equals 110 m) to analyze whether the planning data made could still bear the same load with different heights and could still be categorized as earthquake-resistant buildings. From the results of the SAP-2000 output. The value of the basic static and dynamic shear forces in a 110 m building is always greater than a 102 m building in both the X and Y directions, this indicates that the taller a building is, the higher the design earthquake force used will be. The displacement in a 110 m building is always bigger than a 102 m building in both the X and Y directions. The weakest strength of the structure in a 110 m building is on the 29th floor in the X directions and Y directions, while the 102 m building is on the 26th floor in the X directions and 24 directions. It shows that with the addition of high SAP-2000 output data such as displacement, drift ratio, and other data after analysis shows that a 110 m building is categorized as an earthquake-resistant building according to SNI 1726-2012.

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Interaction of landscape space and indoors in architecture of the open-air concert hall “Mitava”

Landscape architecture and art ◽

10.22616/j.landarchart.2020.17.07 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 ◽

pp. 55-67

Author(s):

Aija Grietena

Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽

Building Structures ◽

Acoustic Characteristics ◽

Concert Hall ◽

Emotional Quality ◽

Indoor Space ◽

The Baltic ◽

Wooden Structures

In the search for balancing factors in the art of environmental design between architecture, landscape architecture, and interiors needed to improve interdisciplinary collaborative planning and enhance the psycho-emotional quality of the environment, the study of landscape space-indoor interaction through comparative analysis and inductive reference is continued. On the Latvian scale, the new, 21st-century technological capabilities in the design and production of wooden structures in the architecture of the open air concert hall “Mītava”, constructed in 2019 on Pasta Island. The importance of the structure on the Baltic scale is emphasized by the unique design, which resembles a shell washed on the bank of the Lielupe River, large (<60m) arched timber continuous roof structures and high acoustic characteristics. Original building structures have opened up new opportunities for interaction between landscape space and indoor space, creating a broad, spatial synthesis. The realization of an artistically stylistic concept in the open-air concert hall “Mītava”, which is subordinated to the existing landscape space and supplemented with appropriate greenery, is considered a valuable contribution to the urban environment. The specific case study analyzed in detail underlines the importance of successful interdisciplinary collaboration in the harmonious interaction between landscape space and indoor.

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Creating Structural Analysis Model from IFC-Based Structural Model

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.712-715.901 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 712-715 ◽

pp. 901-904 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Xuan Wang ◽

Zai Peng Cui ◽

Qi Lin Zhang ◽

Hui Zhu Yang

Keyword(s):

Information Exchange ◽

Structural Model ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Building Structures ◽

Analysis Model ◽

Information Gap ◽

Information Transformation ◽

Complex Building

In recent years, with the rapid development of the complex building structures, the lack of collaborative work platform for the information exchange between different disciplines results in the phenomenon of information gap and information isolated island. Realizing such a demand, a software was developed for supporting information transformation from IFC-format data model to structural model. In this paper, A case study was implemented to illustrate the method of structural model transformation, The results show that the software can extract the information of IFC structural model and form a corresponding structural model.

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Study on the Wind Environment of the Architecture Communities: Traditional Typical Min Nan Human Settlements’ Case

Mathematical Problems in Engineering ◽

10.1155/2013/467076 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Yuan Miao ◽

Shang-Chia Chiou

Keyword(s):

Architectural Design ◽

Life Experience ◽

Conservation Strategy ◽

Building Structures ◽

Rural Settlements ◽

The Road ◽

Short Period ◽

Road Width ◽

Planning And Construction

In contrast to the modern urban planning, which can be done in short period in terms of the spatial qualified design, the traditional tribe needs longer period in terms of the villagers’ sense of community. The selection of location, planning, and construction reveals the wisdom of the former people’s use of the resourceful life experience. First, the paper employs PHOENICS to simulate the wind environments of two most representative patterns of rural settlements in the southern area of Southern Fujian, China. This was made to compare the different conditions caused by settlements of various architectural groups. Second, the engineering and construction aspects of settlements—such as the width of roads and building structures—will be further analyzed and examined as case study in attempt to discover the favorable environmental factors for generating winds as well as the construction dimension of the settlement, such as the road width and the architectural design. Finally, the paper tends to conclude with an energy conservation strategy applied to the construction of modern communities which has low density and small group buildings.

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Examining the impact of students’ attendance, sketching, visualization, and tutors experience on students’ performance: a case of building structures course in construction management

Construction Economics and Building ◽

10.5130/ajceb.v20i3.7056 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Fahim Ullah ◽

Samad Sepasgozer ◽

Faham Tahmasebinia ◽

Saleh Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh Sepasgozar ◽

Steven Davis

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Construction Management ◽

Influential Factors ◽

The Body ◽

Building Structures ◽

Key Factors ◽

Final Exam ◽

The Impact ◽

Core Course

The aim of this paper is to examine students’ performance in a computation-based course by evaluating the effects of key factors including sketching, visualization resources provided to them during the lectures, their attendance and tutors’ experience. A systematic review was conducted including 192 articles published during January 2010 to December 2019. Further, a case study has been conducted in which 633 students from non-engineering backgrounds were taught a core course of construction over three-yearly sessions from 2017 to 2019. The performance has been assessed through two quizzes of 10% weight each, assignment of 40% weight and a final exam with 30% weight in 2017-18 and 40% weight in 2019 were utilized with an attendance criterion of below 75% as low attendance. The statistical result highlights that a clear difference of 14% overall marks exist between the students with less than 75% attendance and the ones with 75% and above in 2017 and a 10% gap in 2018. Students with high marks in sketching secured higher overall marks as compared to others highlighting that the sketching skill is useful to construction students. The findings contribute to the body of education knowledge by evaluating key influential factors and provide a useful benchmark to other educators in the field.

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