Estudio de riesgo sísmico, evaluación y rehabilitación del edificio principal de la UCSG.

Abstract

In the present work, a study of Seismic Risk, Evaluation and Rehabilitation of the main building of the Santiago de Guayaquil Catholic University was carried out, since said structure has more than 50 years of construction; and in the Ecuadorian Construction Standard in the NEC-SE-RE code, this study is required. This study will give us the result of whether the building can continue to provide services in the same conditions as its original construction or should be reinforced to meet the current earthquake resistant requirements established by NEC-2015. For this study, vulnerability or fragility functions were used, which probabilistically relate a measure of seismic intensity with a measure of damage to the building. The NEC-SE-RE code shows us about different levels of study for the building and will be evaluated for the different levels of performance. All this information obtained will be integrated into the Etabs program, in order to obtain the results required to know if reinforcement is needed or not, as stipulated by NEC 15.