LOSS ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL FUNCTIONALITY DUE TO HOSPITALS EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED DAMAGES
In recent years the concept of Performance-based design and assessment requires the performance targets being expressed in a more direct way so that users can understand the seismic risk easily. For a hospital, medical functionality (MF) is the most concerned performance target after an earthquake. This study focuses on the loss analysis of MF due to damages of nonstructural components (NSCs). First, damage levels of MF are defined into four levels from the viewpoint of casualty triage. Then, the impacts on loss of medical functionality by damages of NSCs are investigated based on a questionnaire survey on the 2004 Mid Niigata prefecture earthquake, Japan. Furthermore, a supplementary questionnaire survey is conducted to assess the influence of clutter by using the AHP method, which is a conventional method for analyzing decision- making problems.The results of loss analysis in this study can be connected to seismic fragilities of critical NSCs, so that given a seismic intensity, such as PGA, the performance of post-earthquake medical functionality can be provided to hospitals and concerned authorities.
hospital performance-based assessment medical functionality nonstructure
K.C. Kuo M. Banba Y. Suzuki
Postdoctoral researcher,Dept. of Architecture,National Cheng-Kung University,Tainan,Taiwan Researcher,Policy Research Institute for Land Infrastructure and Transport,Ministry of Land,Infrast Professor,Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization,Ritsumeikan University,Kyoto,Japan
国际会议
14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering(第十四届国际地震工程会议)
北京
英文
2008-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）