1. Overturning Analysis of Household Goods During Earthquake.
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Kalaylı, M. Ali, Doğan, Orhan, and Koç, Hale Nurefsan
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EARTHQUAKES , *HOME furnishings , *SEISMIC response , *SHELVING for books , *WARDROBES (Furniture) - Abstract
In Türkiye, many destructive earthquakes have occurred on the seismic zones (North Anatolian-Eastern Anatolian fault lines) up to now. Due to the repetition of these earthquakes in certain periods, necessary structural repair and strengthening should be made. While structural damage up to the collapse of buildings may occur in an earthquake, economical losses, serious injuries and even deaths occur as a result of damage to nonstructural elements in buildings which is still standing on. In this study, overturning analyzes of slender items such as refrigerators, bookshelves, wardrobes, which have a height/width (H/B) ratio greater than 2.00 and may be at risk against overturning, were carried out for 40 different situations, taking into account 8 different earthquake peak ground acceleration (PGA) levels in between 0,1g-0,8g and 5 different soil classes in our country. In addition, to prevent the overturning of items, a simple approach is presented in order to raise awareness in determining the number of anchors, depending on load carrying capacity of anchor type and size to be used and also the type of wall material to be anchored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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