Desempeño de edificios esenciales durante sismos en Ecuador - caso garajes o estacionamientos para vehículos y aviones que atienden emergencias, torres de control aéreo, Centros de Telecomunicaciones y centros de atención de emergencias.

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to determine the seismic performance of essential buildings during earthquakes in Ecuador from 1977, focusing on garages or parking for vehicles and airplanes that attend emergencies, air control towers, telecommunication centers and emergencies service center throughout the Ecuadorian territory, since many of these structures suffered serious damages by different vulnerability factors that affected the seismic behavior. The methodology consists of the collection of information to identify the essential buildings during earthquakes of 1980, 1998 and 2016, through newspapers and reports prepared by different professionals where the type of soil on the buildings settled to prepare the design spectra and response spectra. Subsequently, the period of vibration and effective drifts were obtained to determine the type of earthquake of each building in order to determine the seismic performance according to the Ecuadorian construction standard.