1996 Volume 2 Issue 2 Pages 75-80
The Kansai International Airport, opened on September 4, 1994, is the world first full-scale airport built on a reclaimed land off the shore. The passenger terminal building, the main facility, is 1700 m in length and approx. 300000 m^2 in total floor area. Since the site is a large scale reclaimed land, due cares were exercised in the structural design to cope with on-going land settlement. This paper firstly outlines ground conditions of the airport island and the structural planning, then reports the seismic design for the huge structure having a large span roof frame, and the records of the structure's vibration due to Hyogoken-Nanbu Earthquake occured on Jan. 17, 1995.
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