BIM Helps Structural Engineers To Construct Earthquake

Resilient Buildings

Created By
Silicon Engineering Consultants Limited Wellington

E-mail : info@siliconec.co.nz

It would be the only half-witted decision of general contractors to put
profits on priority during infrastructure development and civilians safety,
secondary, against natural calamities such as earthquakes, floods,
blizzards etc. To construct disaster-resilient buildings and infrastructure;
structural engineers, civil engineers, steel and rebar detailers keep
themselves updated with constantly evolving earthquake engineering
and sciences of seismic natural occurrences.

Researchers have designed fibre-reinforced concrete beams, base

isolated buildings and what not.

BIM technology holds all the four aces to turn the game of
infrastructure development in favour of structural and civil
engineers.

By leveraging BIM technology, proportionately, structural engineers

can reach the zenith of building and infrastructure development. BIM
along with a finessed 3D model of infrastructure and/or custom API
programming have the capability to conduct fortification analysis and
seismic analysis of the structure. Seismic retrofitting, design
coordination and building codes are some of the sectors where BIM
plays protagonist with its imperative virtual design and construction
tools.

With continuous population explosion, the lateral expansion of
buildings has in fact shifted to vertical rise. Skyscrapers and high-rises
have become an increasing necessity of urban infrastructure
development along with flyovers, bridges and underground tubes.

Building Information Modeling incorporates early seismic needs, to

eliminate design modification once the construction starts. Information
rich intelligent BIM ready 3D models of infrastructure designs are
critical when complying with the seismic specification.
Compliance to designs and building codes in BIM
environment minimizes seismic effect damages

Regulations call for a two-inch space between ducts to prevent
damages in the earthquake and its inclusion in 3D models is an
example of how neatly BIM ensures correctness of designs and
compliance to codes.

Fundamentally, with BIM, any hanger, brace etc. can be modelled;

designs of sleeves, decks, roofs, beams, columns etc. can also be
validated using BIM. Alongside, by developing more custom plugins
and tools that offer access to their APIs, tasks are automated and
code compliance checking is streamlined.
Retrofitting of Earthquake Affected Infrastructure

Having said this, BIM plays a significant role while working on
retrofitting of earthquake affected infrastructure and buildings. It
captures the reality of the as built condition of any structure with help of
point cloud information and converting it to 3D BIM models or
photogrammetry.

Upon modelling and analysis of this captured information in

BIM structural software such as Autodesk Revit Structure, it shows the
displacement under seismic load when virtually simulated.
Fiber and Steel Columns and Base Isolation Methods for
Sustaining Seismic Vibration
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