Foundation Design: Principles and Practices (3rd Edition)
Foundation Design: Principles and Practices (3rd Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133411898
Author: Donald P. Coduto, William A. Kitch, Man-chu Ronald Yeung
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 5, Problem 5.1QPP

The second paragraph of this chapter argues that a retail building that is damaged during an earthquake and must be demolished may not constitute a failure. Do you agree with this assessment? Defend your position.

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Whether the given assessment is agreeable that a retail building that was damaged during an earthquake and must be demolished may not constitute a failure.

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An argument which is as follows:

A retail building and a hospital, both of which are constructed in a seismically active area and are designed considering the maximum likely earthquake for the area. Several years after the structures are built, the design earthquake occurs.The building did not collapse during the earthquake and no lives were lost. However, both buildings suffer some significant structural damage and must be demolished. Did both buildings fail during the earthquake?

The argumentthat the hospital building failed and the retail store didn’t is credible. The claim is valid as the design objectives built into the international building codes and modern building codes, that categorize structures based on their risk to human life and put these two structures in different categories with different performance requirements. The retail structure comes in the category II structure with substantial hazard to human life in the event of failure.

The design requirements for the retail structure are not to collapse during the design earthquake and allow occupants to safely exit the building, but it is not expected to survive the design earthquake.

Therefore, the retail structure is not a failure and is built according to the specifications.

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