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HOSPITAL BUILDING
AN INDEPENDENT STUDY
Of
MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY
In
By
PUJARI PADMA RAO
(Roll No. 15217010)
CANDIDATES DECLARATION
I here certify that the work which is being presented in this independent study
entitled RAPID VISUAL SCREENING FOR SEISMIC EVALUATION
OF RC HOSPITAL BUILDING , in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the award of the degree of Master of Technology (Structural & Construction
Engineering) submitted in the Department of Civil Engineering of the institute
is an authentic record of my own work carried out during a period JulyNovember 2016 under the supervision of Mr. Davinder Singh, Assistant
Professor and Dr Rizwan A. Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil
Engineering, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar.
Date...
This is to certify that the above statement made by candidate is correct to the
best of our knowledge.
(Mr Davinder Singh)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
Hospitals must be fully operational in the event of an emergency after an earthquake to
protect the lives of patients and health workers as well as to provide emergency care and
medical treatment to the subsequently increased number of patients who will be driven to
healthcare facilities.
Surveys performed in the aftermath of recent earthquakes have shown that the performance
of hospitals and their functionality after an earthquake are related not only to structural
damage but also to damage that occurs to nonstructural elements and medical equipment.
For a large-scale mapping of the seismic risk to hospitals, it is impossible to proceed with
advanced methodologies; simplified methodologies are thus required. These methodologies
must consider the performance of nonstructural elements and equipment.
In this work, a rapid visual screening method is proposed to determine a Safety Index for
hospital buildings. The newly developed procedure provides a risk index by evaluating the
main parameters that affect the vulnerability of buildings during a systematic sidewalk
survey. The procedure has been applied to two Italian hospitals located in different seismic
areas, and the results are compared with a similar index obtained from a push-over analysis.
CONTENTS
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Candidates declaration
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Contents
CHAPTERS
1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................1
1.1.Rapid visual screening ...................................................1
1.2 International practices in RVS .. ...2
1.2.1 RVS methodologies in the US...2
1.2.2 FEMA154
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3 EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMME.................................................................................8
3.1 General...............................................................................................................................8
4 CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................10
5 REFERENCES ...........................................................................................................12