Soft Storey Effects on Plastic Hinge Propagation of Moment Resisting Reinforced Concrete Building Subjected to Ranau Earthquake

• Main Authors: Chee, Ghuan Tan, Wei, Ting Chia, Taksiah, A. Majid, Fadzli, Mohamed Nazri, M. I., Adiyanto
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: American Institute of Physics 2017
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20328/1/Soft%20storey%20effects%20on%20plastic%20hinge%20propagation%20of%20moment%20resisting%20reinforced%20concrete%20building%20subjected%20to%20Ranau%20earthquake.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/20328/; https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5005748

On 5th June 2015, a moderate earthquake with Mw 5.9 hit Ranau, resulted in damages of the existing nonseismically designed buildings, such that 61 buildings, including mosques, schools, hospitals and Ranau police headquarters were suffered from different level structural damages. Soft storey irregul...