Cosenza, E;
Di Sarno, L;
Maddaloni, G;
Magliulo, G;
Petrone, C;
Prota, A;
(2015)
Shake table tests for the seismic fragility evaluation of hospital rooms.
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
, 44
(1)
pp. 23-40.
10.1002/eqe.2456.
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Abstract
© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Health care facilities may undergo severe and widespread damage that impairs the functionality of the system when it is stricken by an earthquake. Such detrimental response is emphasized either for the hospital buildings designed primarily for gravity loads or without employing base isolation/supplemental damping systems. Moreover, these buildings need to warrant operability especially in the aftermath of moderate-to-severe earthquake ground motions. The provisions implemented in the new seismic codes allow obtaining adequate seismic performance for the hospital structural components; nevertheless, they do not provide definite yet reliable rules to design and protect the building contents. To date, very few experimental tests have been carried out on hospital buildings equipped with nonstructural components as well as building contents. The present paper is aimed at establishing the limit states for a typical health care room and deriving empirical fragility curves by considering a systemic approach. Toward this aim, a full scale three-dimensional model of an examination (out patients consultation) room is constructed and tested dynamically by using the shaking table facility of the University of Naples, Italy. The sample room contains a number of typical medical components, which are either directly connected to the panel boards of the perimeter walls or behave as simple freestanding elements. The outcomes of the comprehensive shaking table tests carried out on the examination room have been utilized to derive fragility curves based on a systemic approach.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Shake table tests for the seismic fragility evaluation of hospital rooms |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/eqe.2456 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eqe.2456 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Cosenza, E; Di Sarno, L; Maddaloni, G; Magliulo, G; Petrone, C; Prota, A; (2015) Shake table tests for the seismic fragility evaluation of hospital rooms. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics , 44 (1) pp. 23-40, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eqe.2456. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
| Keywords: | hospital building contents; nonstruct ural components; shake table test; seismic fragility;fragility curve |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1474487 |
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