OBSERVED RESPONSES AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF THE BUILDING OF THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY IN 2001 GEIYO EARTHQUAKE

Abstract

200 1.3.24 Geiyo earthquake hit at Chugoku and Shikoku area, fortunately the extensive damage and economic losses did not occur though accelerations of Ig or greater on the horizontal were recorded at several sites. Analytical studies conducted on the instrumented eight story steel reinforced concrete building which experienced ground accelerations of about 0.2g during this event are presented in this study to demonstrate the ability of nonlinear response analysis to predict performance of steel reinforced concrete buildings subjected to strong earthquake ground motions. Quite good correlations were obtained between the recorded and calculated response of the building.