Abstract
Reinforced concrete box-shaped wall structure is one of the typical structural systems for public housing in Japan. The earthquake and tsunami damage to reinforced concrete box-shaped wall buildings with various types is described in this chapter. Damage is mainly based on surveys of public housing in Sendai City and the coastal areas of Miyagi Prefecture.
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The damage surveys on reinforced concrete box-shaped wall buildings described in this chapter were conducted under the control of Box-shaped Wall Structure Committee of Architectural Institute of Japan. The authors acknowledge with sincere thanks the cooperation of the Housing Division, Civil Engineering Department, Miyagi Prefectural Government; Miyagi Prefecture Housing Supply Corporation; Municipal Housing Division, Sendai City Government and Urban Renaissance Agency in the surveys of public apartment buildings in Sendai City. Contributions of members of survey teams, listed below, are greatly appreciated: Akita Prefectural University team (Tetsuya Nishida), Oita University team (Kenji Kikuchi, Masayuki Kuroki and Koji Nishino), Osaka University team (Hiroshi Kuramoto, Juan Jose Castro, Hisatoshi Kashiwa, Masato Sakurai and Taku Suzuki), Tokyo Institute of Technology team (Yo Hibino), Toyohashi University of Technology team (Yasushi Sanada, Yuta Sato and Sohei Matsubara), Nagoya University team (Masaomi Teshigawara, Ippei Maruyama and Motoyuki Nakamura), Japan Prefabricated Construction Suppliers & Manufacturers Association team (Masayoshi Iizuka, Takahiro Sasaki, Toshiyuki Masubuchi and Hiroki Yasuda), Mie University team (Shigemitsu Hatanaka and Naoki Mishima),Yamaguchi University team (Eiichi Inai, Nanako Marubashi, Junji Ozaki and Ken Harayama), Urban Renaissance Agency team (Shinji Tokita and Shiro Suzuki), UR Linkage team (Yoshio Inoue, Motoyuki Tanaka, Masumi Hishikura, Takashi Kitahori, Yasuhiko Kitano, Yoichi Wakasugi and Naoto Shiraishi), Yokohama National University team (Akira Tasai, Koichi Kusunoki, Yuichi Hatanaka and Hidekazu Watanabe) and Green Design Office team (Masatsugu Iwata, Kimiko Tamura and Rie Kawahara).
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Inai, E., Tokita, S., Inoue, Y., Iizuka, M., Sasaki, T. (2012). Damage to Reinforced Concrete Box-Shaped Wall Buildings. In: Preliminary Reconnaissance Report of the 2011 Tohoku-Chiho Taiheiyo-Oki Earthquake. Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering, vol 23. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54097-7_6
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