EARTHQUAKE INDUCED DAMAGE ESTIMATION FOR STEEL BUILDINGS IN PUERTO RICO

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EARTHQUAKE INDUCED DAMAGE ESTIMATION FOR STEEL BUILDINGS IN PUERTO RICO

Author: Gustavo Cortés-Areizaga | Size: 1.95 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Unspecified | Publisher: Gustavo Cortés-Areizaga | Year: 2006 | pages: 168

This work presents a method for estimating the expected damage caused by an earthquake
on steel buildings in Puerto Rico. Since Puerto Rico is located between a series of tectonic
faults, buildings could suffer the damages caused by a major earthquake. The objective of
this research is to develop the information needed for insurance companies to estimate the
earthquake damage of steel buildings in a simple and practical way. Steel buildings typically
found in Puerto Rico have been analyzed. The response of these buildings to many
acceleration time histories have been recorded. With these recorded data, fragility curves
which indicate the probability of a damage state to occur were created. A cost per square
foot has been assigned to each damage state. This cost is then multiplied by the probability
of damage for each damage state and the final expected cost for the total damage is obtained.

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