Damage to ceilings of school buildings due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and aftershocks

Toru Eguchi; Ryohei Kumagai; Jun Iyama; Kenji Kabayama; Tsuyoshi Seike; Yuka Matsumoto; Satoshi Yamada; Koichi Kusunoki

doi:10.3130/aijt.21.55

Damage to ceilings of school buildings due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and aftershocks

Toru Eguchi, Ryohei Kumagai, Jun Iyama, Kenji Kabayama, Tsuyoshi Seike, Yuka Matsumoto, Satoshi Yamada, Koichi Kusunoki

Department of Architecture

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

In order to clarify the damage toceilings as nonstructural element on school buildings due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, total 205 school buildings were investigated according to documents for disaster restoration work. Damages to ceilings are concentrated on the top floor of the buildings. Bend-form ceilings tend to be damaged more than flat ones. Falls of ceiling with furrings are approximately 40% of total falls. There are many damaged ceilings even the building have enough seismic strength for current standard.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	55-59
Number of pages	5
Journal	AIJ Journal of Technology and Design
Volume	21
Issue number	47
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3130/aijt.21.55
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2015

Keywords

2011 tohoku earthquake
Ceiling
Damage due to earthquake
Nonstructural element
School building

Access to Document

10.3130/aijt.21.55

Cite this

@article{163e7558ecf644c9a762f50876fa07ca,

title = "Damage to ceilings of school buildings due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and aftershocks",

abstract = "In order to clarify the damage toceilings as nonstructural element on school buildings due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, total 205 school buildings were investigated according to documents for disaster restoration work. Damages to ceilings are concentrated on the top floor of the buildings. Bend-form ceilings tend to be damaged more than flat ones. Falls of ceiling with furrings are approximately 40% of total falls. There are many damaged ceilings even the building have enough seismic strength for current standard.",

keywords = "2011 tohoku earthquake, Ceiling, Damage due to earthquake, Nonstructural element, School building",

author = "Toru Eguchi and Ryohei Kumagai and Jun Iyama and Kenji Kabayama and Tsuyoshi Seike and Yuka Matsumoto and Satoshi Yamada and Koichi Kusunoki",

year = "2015",

month = feb,

day = "1",

doi = "10.3130/aijt.21.55",

language = "English",

volume = "21",

pages = "55--59",

journal = "AIJ Journal of Technology and Design",

issn = "1341-9463",

publisher = "Architectural Institute of Japan",

number = "47",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Damage to ceilings of school buildings due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and aftershocks

AU - Eguchi, Toru

AU - Kumagai, Ryohei

AU - Iyama, Jun

AU - Kabayama, Kenji

AU - Seike, Tsuyoshi

AU - Matsumoto, Yuka

AU - Yamada, Satoshi

AU - Kusunoki, Koichi

PY - 2015/2/1

Y1 - 2015/2/1

N2 - In order to clarify the damage toceilings as nonstructural element on school buildings due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, total 205 school buildings were investigated according to documents for disaster restoration work. Damages to ceilings are concentrated on the top floor of the buildings. Bend-form ceilings tend to be damaged more than flat ones. Falls of ceiling with furrings are approximately 40% of total falls. There are many damaged ceilings even the building have enough seismic strength for current standard.

AB - In order to clarify the damage toceilings as nonstructural element on school buildings due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, total 205 school buildings were investigated according to documents for disaster restoration work. Damages to ceilings are concentrated on the top floor of the buildings. Bend-form ceilings tend to be damaged more than flat ones. Falls of ceiling with furrings are approximately 40% of total falls. There are many damaged ceilings even the building have enough seismic strength for current standard.

KW - 2011 tohoku earthquake

KW - Ceiling

KW - Damage due to earthquake

KW - Nonstructural element

KW - School building

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84923119155&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3130/aijt.21.55

DO - 10.3130/aijt.21.55

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84923119155

SN - 1341-9463

VL - 21

SP - 55

EP - 59

JO - AIJ Journal of Technology and Design

JF - AIJ Journal of Technology and Design

IS - 47

ER -

Damage to ceilings of school buildings due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and aftershocks

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this