Course Description
The rapid earthquake hazard evaluation of existing buildings course will help participants to develop their skills to be able to properly assess earthquake damages for buildings after a major earthquake. In this course, participants will also learn about the most current methods for performing post-earthquake safety evaluations of buildings.
Course Objectives
- Understanding the Visual earthquake hazard evaluation
- Understanding the Hill-slope effect
- Peaking ground velocity
- Being familiar with Background and significance of earthquake evaluation,
- Being familiar with Data requirement and quality control
- Understanding the Cantilever extension ratio
Who Should Attend?
- Managers
- Mayors, city/county managers
- Emergency staff
- Fire/police/public safety chiefs
- All Disaster Response Personnel
Course Details/Schedule
- Introduction
- Visual earthquake hazard evaluation
- Earthquake intensity scales
- Modified Mercalli Intensity
- Basic data
- Story number
- Soft story
- Cantilever extension,
- Visible quality
- Weak story
- Pounding effect
- Hill-slope effect
- Peak ground velocity
- Rapid modeling fundamentals
- Background and significance of earthquake evaluation
- Data requirement and quality control
- Peak ground velocity
- Building height
- Soft height ratio
- Cantilever extension ratio
- Moment of inertia
- Column-shear area ratio
- Frame number
- Supervised modeling fundamentals
- Building damage model introduction
- Model fundamentals
- Model inputs and outputs
- FUKATES Software demonstration
- Applications
