3D Dynamic Evaluation of Abu Sair Building

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2014
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Ahmad Mezyed
Baha' Ahmad
nader Nour
Montaser "Qasem Sulayman"
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Recently the voices of the decision makers have been raised in warning people from a coming destructive earthquake. Since Palestine had faced two major earthquakes in 1837 and 1927 which are expected to hit again in the near future but only Allah knows when and where. Meanwhile we are quite sure that those earthquakes will create great destruction in terms of money, failures of structures and the most critically is loss of lives.We all know that the best solution in dealing with natural phenomena is by avoiding them and still away from standing against their effect, but in our case earthquakes will hit our homes, schools, mosques and hospitals, it will destroy the infrastructure the power stations, water and wastewater networks, pollutants will attach people and diseases will spread and start killing them if even they still alive. However, this chain of destruction will start from failure of structures.In fact to be able to understand all these processes and to design our buildings properly, we try to give a brief summary to all the required steps starting by determining the vulnerability of the building, going through the designing process and finally the retrofitting procedures that fit the building conditions. On one hand, these procedures will lead us to have a better understanding and good expected behavior of the overall system against earthquakes. On the other hand, it will increase the ability of the building to withstand against the lateral loads effect.
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