Earthquake damage prediction of road bridges using Quantification Method Ⅱ

Abstract

The damage of road bridges by severe earthquakes gives a large influence on the activities of saving lives and the restoration from the earthquake disaster. Therefore, it is very useful to estimate beforehand the damage degree of road bridges by earthquakes in order to devise the strategy to the earthquake disaster in the city. The objective of this study is to establish the prediction of earthquake damage of road bridges by using the investigation result of the damage degree of road bridges by the earthquakes in the past, in which the Quantification Method Ⅱ is used to construct the prediction.