The Seismic Design of Bethlehem General Hospital

Abstract

As all structural engineering projects our project aims to find a suitable structural system for the residential building that we work on to be adequate for human use, our project aims to keep the building standing while facing the seismic and lateral loads. Most of the buildings in our country are not designed to face seismic loads which is considered as a threat in our building's design and execution methods, in this project, we used ACI 318-19 building code requirements for structural concrete using chapter 18 which includes the earthquake building requirements, we started with work on the analysis of architectural plans in terms of entrances, exits, number of floors of the building, locations of inclusions and others, then finding the suitable columns and shear walls arrange in accordance with the architectural design, decide the loads for the building and start modeling it on Etabs, after that we must check on all the requirements that the ACI 318-14 chapter 18 contains like the maximum story drift and maximum deflection, finally detailing all the structural members of the building achieving the requirements. As a result, we will have a design that satisfies all the ACI 318-14 requirements and the load provisions of the Jordinain code for buildings loads which will achieve an allowable story drift, from our result the design will keep the building sustainable for human use after an extreme earthquake.