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Earthquake Spectra / Volume 27 / Issue 2 / MANUSCRIPTS

Earthquake Spectra 27, pp. 351-373 (2011); doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.3577707

Earthquake Damage to Wood-Framed Buildings in the ShakeOut Scenario

William P. Graf, M.EERI1 and Hope A. Seligson, M.EERI2

1ImageCat, Inc., 400 Oceangate, Suite 1050, Long Beach, CA 90802
2MMI Engineering, 2100 Main St., Suite 150, Huntington Beach, CA 92648

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The M7.8 San Andreas earthquake scenario for the ShakeOut exercise subjects more than a million wood-framed buildings to loads beyond their elastic capacity. Residential construction from the boom from the 1960’s to 1980’s relied heavily upon drywall sheathing and stucco for shear walls – more vulnerable than plywood or the gypsum lath and plaster of older buildings. During this same construction boom, many apartment buildings were built with tuck-under parking, and heavy masonry chimneys were prevalent. Based on HAZUS®MH modeling we describe, more than 30,000 (mostly older) wood buildings could be red-tagged or yellow-tagged in the scenario event. More recent wood-frames, engineered using plywood shear walls, should perform well, even under the conditions produced by the San Andreas event considered. Cost-effective retrofit measures exist for some of the weaknesses found in older wood construction, but seismic upgrade of wood-framed buildings with structural wood panels remains expensive and intrusive.

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construction industry, earthquake engineering, elasticity, maintenance engineering, structural panels, vibrations, wood

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Received 05 January 2010
Accepted 02 March 2011
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8755-2930 (print)  

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