Design examples

Nishida, Akemi  ; Obi, Hirotoshi*; Ohashi, Yasuhiro*; Takeuchi, Yoshitaka*

Though design guidelines for earthquake and wind loads are specified for buildings including a nuclear facility, the guideline for impulsive load as explosion and impact is not specified. Some design examples are presented to illustrate the applicability of the tentative guideline for impulsive loads. Two buildings -a steel frame and a reinforced concrete frame building structures- located at the corner of a crossroads are selected. Both buildings are designed to resist major earthquake loads, as specified by the AIJ seismic design codes. Dynamic responses and the corresponding damage states are illustrated for the cases of two buildings subjected to impact loads due to road vehicle crashes at the first floor of the buildings. Moreover, dynamic responses are illustrated for the cases of the frame buildings subjected to internal and external explosions. This study provides information on dispersion of window glasses of building structures as an example of non-structural member.