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Damage to urban buildings in zones of intensities VIII and VII during the Wenchuan earthquake and discussion on some typical damages |
Jingjiang Sun, Yuhong Tang, Chao Zheng, Hongbin Shi, Lin Lin, Zhongxian Sun |
Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration, Harbin 150080, China |
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Abstract The outline and typical characteristics of damages to building in Jiangyou city and Anxian county (intensity VIII), Mianyang city and Deyang city (intensity VII) are introduced in the paper. The damage ratios, based on the sample statistics of multi-story brick buildings together with multi-story brick buildings with RC frame at first story (BBF), are presented. Then some typical damages, such as horizontal cricks of brick masonry buildings, X-shaped cricks on the walls under windows, the damages to columns, beams and infill walls of frame buildings and the damage to half circle-shaped masonry walls, are discussed.
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Received: 15 December 2008
Published: 10 April 2009
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Fund:Public Service Research Project of Quality Inspection Field under Grant No. 10-110 and Public Service Research Project of Earthquake Field under Grant No. 200708005 |
Corresponding Authors:
Jingjiang Sun
E-mail: jingjiangsun@sina.com
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