Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Buildings in Downtown Yangon, Myanmar

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Modern Research in Civil Engineering, Architectural & Urban Development

Year: 2018 | Page No:147-157

DOI: http://www.doi.org/10.33422/7cau.2018.10.70

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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Buildings in Downtown Yangon, Myanmar

A. Hnin Ei Win, A. Saw Htwe Zaw

 

ABSTRACT: 

An existing building management system is requisite and important for present modernized society and urbanization. The potential problems cause the falling down of infrastructure and defiency of environmental consistency through the impact of earthquake. On this basic requirement, the study on vulnerable buildings due to the likely earthquake impact highlights the performance evaluating of earthquake-resistant building quality and the effectiveness of existing infrastructure standard, and the compulsory facts and factors for facilitated decision making solutions. This paper is focusing to reflection and influence of existing buildings mitigation on the risk of earthquake impact in Yangon.