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The 2014 magnitude 6.5 Ludian earthquake caused a death toll of 617, many landslides and tens of thousands of collapsed buildings. A field investigation to evaluate the damage to buildings was carried out immediately after the occurrence of the earthquake. Severely damaged aseismic buildings, which were basically observed in the downtown of Longtoushan Town, were carefully examined one by one with the aim to improve design codes. This paper summarizes the damage observed to the investigated aseismic buildings in both the structural and local levels. A common failure mode was observed that most of the aseismic buildings, such as RC frame structures and confined masonry structures, were similarly destroyed by severe damage or complete collapse of the first story. The related strong ground motion, which was recorded at the nearby station, had a short duration of less than 20 s but a very large PGA up to 1.0 g. The RC frames based on the new design codes still failed to achieve the design target for “strong column, weak beam”. Typical local failure details, which were related to the interaction between RC columns and infill walls and between constructional columns and masonry walls, are summarized with preliminary analyses.
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Supported by: Funding of IEM under Grant No.2014B04, National Natural Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 51108433 and 51308511, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 2013M531083
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Lin, X., Zhang, H., Chen, H. et al. Field investigation on severely damaged aseismic buildings in 2014 Ludian earthquake. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 14, 169–176 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-015-0014-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-015-0014-5