2021 Volume 73 Issue 5 Pages 345-353
In this paper, the investigation results of the ceiling damage in a public hall and gymnasiums in Sendai and Fukushima city due to the off the Coast of Fukushima Earthquake on Feb. 13, 2021, are reported. Although no causalities and large-scale ceiling failure were not fortunately occurred in the investigated buildings, the similar ceiling damage had been occurred at the same buildings in past earthquakes. From the viewpoint of not only protecting human life but also maintaining functions, to break through the current situation where facility managers have no choice but to return to the original state for the government subsidy, various countermeasures and creation of a system that allows to positively adopt them are necessary.
