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Seismic Retrofitting for RC Rigid Frame Viaducts with Compression Type Braces

Last updated on 13 September 2013 11:10

Quite a few structures were damaged by the Hyogo-ken Nambu earthquake (M7.2) on January 17th 1995, when some of the columns of railway RC rigid frame viaducts collapsed due to shear fracture and others were slightly damaged by flexural force. Since then the columns which were subject to shear failure...

Author(s): Yoshida K.;Kita N.;Okano M.;Seki M.

Organisation(s): JR-Central ; Obayashi Corporation ;

2006

Japan

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