Desempeño de edificios esenciales durante sismos en Ecuador - caso hospitales y clínicas, centros de salud o de emergencia sanitaria.

Abstract

The titling work aims to determine the performance of essential buildings during earthquakes in Ecuador from 1977, focused on hospitals, clinics or health centers, since many such structures have suffered from mild to moderate damage to different earthquakes. , where the most critical factors that affected their seismic behavior will be exposed. Thus, the analysis of the different earthquakes that occurred in Ecuador began with a collection of information to identify the essential buildings during the earthquakes of 1980, 1995, 1998 and 2016, through vulnerability studies, interviews, newspapers and studies carried out by different professionals, where damage and vulnerability factors are evidenced. In addition, the type of soil on which the buildings were located was determined in order to prepare the corresponding spectra of both Seismic Hazard Curves to determine the PGA in rock, as well as the elastic response spectra of accelerated design. Then it was necessary to determine both the drifts and the period of vibration of the different structures selected so that together with the records obtained from the accelerometer stations of the different cities, analyze what type of earthquake occurred on the site under study for each case, with The purpose of determining its seismic performance according to the Ecuadorian Construction Standard. Finally, the effective reduction factor was calculated through acceleration design response spectra and station response spectra.