Failure of Suspended Ceilings in Large Public Spaces by Great East Japan Earthquake

Abstract

    By the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011 and its aftershocks, suspended ceilings had failed in several large public spaces. This paper reports distribution of the buildings. This paper also reports investigation results of five buildings whose ceilings had failed. It was found that failure of ceilings had mostly occurred in the area of five or more seismic intensity, and damage had reached widely. [This abstract is not included in the PDF]