Abstract:
With every passing year, our buildings are getting older and we should know which buildings no
longer can withstand the seismic activities so are in a need of our attention and which are safe to
use. To know this, we can do a detailed structural analysis on each building but it will require a
lot of time and resources per building. So, there should be a way of eliminating some fraction of
buildings which are safe and highlight some fraction of buildings which are need of detailed
structural analysis so that a lot of time and valuable resources do not go into waste.
In other countries there is an empirical technique of RAPID VISUAL SCREENING in practice.
By performing this technique on a region’s buildings, they are being able to develop a database
which helps them in identifying the buildings which are in a need of detailed analysis. This
technique saves a lot of time and valuable resources. We have also performed the same technique
on the 225 commercial buildings of G-sectors and have developed a database on code compliant
and non-compliant RC structures. This report will help in eliminating the buildings which are
safe and do not need the detailed analysis and vice versa. This report will also help in making of
3 representative building models of these 225 buildings and 3 representative building models for
each G sector, which can act as input data for analytical analysis.
