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INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERINGCollege of Engineering

University of the Philippines Diliman

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CE 197 Seismic Loading Example

A 3-storey reinforced concrete hospital is to be built 10 km from anearthquake fault in Metro Manila. The interstory height is 3 m. The

dead load on each floor is 400 kN. Determine the load distribution

on the structure.

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For Zone 4: >0.8

=

0.8(1.2)(0.4)(1.5)

8.5

V > 0.0678W

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