Damage Index of Reinforced Concrete Structures in India

Abstract

In today’s world, there has been a lot of discussion in vulnerability of the structures. The major problem faced in world as well for the developing countries like India is proper quantification of damage. In spite of making signification progress in the design codes, there has been significant lack in the progress of quantification of damage. Thus Damage Index is the response parameter used for quantification of degree of damage. A land where major earthquakes occurred over last two decades causing devastation both social and economic, an urgent concern for damage quantification arises. The present study is done to carry out quantification of damage for a four-storey RC Moment resisting frame by modified Park and Ang damage model which is then compared by different Indian Standard code for Earthquake resistant design.