Journal of Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering
Online ISSN : 1884-6246
ISSN-L : 1884-6246
Technical Papers
The Tendency of Suffering a Calamity of the Precast Concrete Buildings by Collection of Damage Situation Investigation
Masayoshi IIZUKA
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2012 Volume 12 Issue 4 Pages 4_42-4_55

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The 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake stroke very vast area of east side of Japan, and they greatly talked about tsunami-related information, but it seems not so much about the earthquake damage to a buildings (especially reinforced concrete buildings). In this report, the tendency of suffering a calamity of the precast concrete buildings built in a stricken area was analyzed statistically from the collection of the results of investigation carried out in many organizations after March 11, 2011 which the earthquake generated.
Data of the precast concrete buildings currently collected are 808 including the 95 buildings which performed anti-seismic reinforcement using precast concrete members.
By analyzation, it was checked that numbers of the precast concrete buildings had no or slight damages and there were very few precast concrete buildings which suffered the moderate or more serious damages.
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