Preliminary Seismic Evaluation of School Building with RC Jacketing

Preliminary Seismic Evaluation of School Building with RC Jacketing

After the 921 Earthquake, the required seismic capacity in the design codes was heightened significantly, especially for primary and secondary school buildings. School buildings protect the lives of children and serve as emergency shelters after earthquakes, and so we must consider the issue of the seismic performance of school buildings. An overall evaluation of primary and secondary school buildings needs to be performed as soon as possible. Retrofitting school buildings with RC column jacketing is commonly performed. After retrofitting, engineers can use methods like preliminary seismic evaluation to quickly calculate the seismic capacity. In this paper, we use a typical school building to develop a preliminary seismic evaluation method for RC jacketing and compare the results with those obtained experimentally. The estimates using the proposed method are conservative.