DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTEGRATED EARTHQUAKE DISASTER SIMULATION SYSTEMS

Abstract

In this paper, for early earthquake damage assessment systems, the earthquake building damage estimation method is developed, using one of the seismic design methods of structures, the capacity spectrum method. This calculation method is simpler than the time history response analysis and the spectral characteristics of seismic ground motion and the natural period of a building can be considered because the response spectrum is used as an input ground motion. And the seismic performance of buildings is identified by using the building damage survey data from the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake and Niigataken-Chuetsu earthquake.