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SUMMARY:Response or Reinforced-Concrete Buildings to the Taiwan Earthquake
  of February 5\, 2016
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Santiago Pujol\, Professor of Civil Engineering\, Purdue Un
 iversity\, West Lafayette\, IN\, USA\nAbstract :\nThe magnitude-6.4 Southe
 rn Taiwan earthquake occurred near the city of Tainan\, Taiwan\, on Februa
 ry 5\, 2016\, causing severe damage\, partial collapse\, and full collapse
  of low-to-midrise reinforced concrete buildings. While initial measures o
 f ground motion intensity indicated potential for moderate structural dama
 ge\, ten reinforced concrete buildings collapsed and hundreds more were re
 ported to have severe damage as a consequence of the earthquake. This dama
 ge was surprising because Taiwan has made considerable investments into ea
 rthquake research\, regulations\, enforcement\, and strengthening. To unde
 rstand this discrepancy between expected and observed building performance
 \, a team of researchers from the United States traveled to Taiwan to work
  with Taiwanese researchers. Together they gathered detailed building resp
 onse data\, including the observed damage and properties of building struc
 tures in quantifiable terms. Both damaged and undamaged buildings were sur
 veyed to produce a comprehensive data set that can be used to test hypothe
 ses on causes of damage. This presentation describes the data\, how to acc
 ess them\, and how they can be used to:\n(1) understand causes of building
  collapse\,\n(2) identify building properties that increase probability of
  structural damage\,\n(3) identify vulnerable structures in seismic areas\
 , in particular among older structures built prior to modern seismic desig
 n codes\, and\n(4) study the relationship between site response and buildi
 ng damage.\nBio :\nSantiago Pujol is a Professor of Civil Engineering at P
 urdue University’s Lyles School of Civil Engineering. A Fellow of the Am
 erican Concrete Institute (ACI)\, Santiago is a member of ACI Committees 1
 33\, 314\, 318R\, and 445. He has received the Walter L. Huber Civil Engin
 eering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the
  Chester Paul Siess Award for Excellence in Structural Research from ACI. 
 Santiago has conducted quantitative earthquake reconnaissance work in Turk
 ey\, Colombia\, Mexico\, Peru\, Chile\, Japan\, China\, Haiti\, Nepal\, an
 d Taiwan
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