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dc.creatorArifin, Fransiscus
dc.creatorSullivan, Timothy
dc.creatorDhakal, Rajesh
dc.date2020-09-01
dc.identifierhttps://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/1467
dc.identifier10.5459/bnzsee.53.3.144-149
dc.descriptionGood seismic performance of glazing systems is essential to maintaining building functionality and limiting repair costs in a post-earthquake scenario. This paper reports on experimental research into the seismic performance of a standard commercial glazing system used in New Zealand. The focus of the research is to provide information not only on the life-safety performance of glazing but also on the serviceability of glazing systems, considering post-earthquake weather-tightness. This paper first describes the experimental testing set-up developed at the University of Canterbury to achieve this, then details the damage observed and finally, fragility functions for different damage states are reported. Leakage of the glazing is seen to initiate at a median storey drift demand of only 0.35%, whereas glass breakage did not occur until a median drift storey demand of 5.0%. The results obtained from this research demonstrate that the life-safety risk posed by modern commercial glazing in earthquakes will typically be low but the serviceability performance, and in particular weather-tightness post-earthquake, should be improved.en-US
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNew Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineeringen-US
dc.relationhttps://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/1467/1388
dc.sourceBulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering; Vol 53 No 3 (2020); 144-149en-US
dc.source2324-1543
dc.source1174-9857
dc.titleExperimental investigation into the seismic fragility of a commercial glazing systemen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typeArticleen-US


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