Performance of Transportation Systems in the 2003 Bam, Iran, Earthquake

Eshghi, Sassan; Ahari, Masoud N.

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“…A total of 39,361 urban residential and commercial buildings in Bam and Baravat, and 32,400 rural units in over 250 villages suffered damage (HFIR 2004). The earthquake left 70,000 people homeless (Eshghi and Ahari 2005).…”

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Reconstruction management policies in residential and commercial sectors after the 2003 bam earthquake in Iran

2009

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In the very early hours of 26th December 2003, a devastating and strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck Bam, one of the historical cities of Kerman province in the south of Iran. According to the official reports, more than 30,000 were killed and about 25,000 injured. More than 80% of the town's buildings were also destroyed. After the disaster, Bam's reconstruction management process was presented with a lot of challenges and faced many fundamental questions. The number of human losses and related social issues, extensive destruction of the historical town, and also the lack of good experience in the reconstruction of a city or town made the reconstruction project of Bam more complicated. The reconstruction of Bam was the most important postdisaster reconstruction project among recent reconstructions in Iran. Many factors, such as concern over the government and international agencies, the new managerial approaches, and the application of appropriate reconstruction methods, made it different from the other reconstruction programs. Thus, the post-earthquake reconstruction of Bam is investigated in this research with respect to the importance of this issue. The aim behind this article is to give a brief explanation of the earthquake reconstruction management policies in Bam and also the plans for the reconstruction and rebuilding of urban residential and commercial units.

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Reconstruction management policies in residential and commercial sectors after the 2003 bam earthquake in Iran

2009

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“…Following the Bam earthquake of 2003 in southeastern Iran, several steel structures were damaged (Eshghi et al 2003). Failure of the built-up batten columns was one of the most observable failure modes in damaged buildings (Hosseini Hashemi and Jafari 2004;Hosseinzadeh 2004).…”

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Cyclic performance of concrete-filled steel batten built-up columns

Razzaghi

Khalkhaliha

Aziminejad

2016

Int J Adv Struct Eng

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Steel built-up batten columns are common types of columns in Iran and some other parts of the world. They are economic and have acceptable performance due to gravity loads. Although several researches have been conducted on the behavior of the batten columns under axial loads, there are few available articles about their seismic performance. Experience of the past earthquakes, particularly the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran, revealed that these structural members are seismically vulnerable. Thus, investigation on seismic performance of steel batten columns due to seismic loads and providing a method for retrofitting them are important task in seismic-prone areas. This study aims to investigate the behavior of concretefilled batten columns due to combined axial and lateral loads. To this end, nonlinear static analyses were performed using ANSYS software. Herein, the behaviors of the steel batten columns with and without concrete core were compared. The results of this study showed that concrete-filled steel batten columns, particularly those filled with high-strength concrete, may cause significant increases in energy absorption and capacity of the columns. Furthermore, concrete core may improve post-buckling behavior of steel batten columns.

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“…As almost all hospitals and health care units in the Bam area were destroyed or suffered serious damages, tens of thousands injured people were airlifted to the hospitals in Kerman or to other major cities in Iran. Rescue and relief teams from Iran and around the world, with various equipment and materials, were flown also into Bam Eshghi and Ahari 2005;Abolghasemi et al 2008).…”

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Earthquake Disaster Risk Reduction in Iran: Lessons and “Lessons Learned” from Three Large Earthquake Disasters—Tabas 1978, Rudbar 1990, and Bam 2003

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Mokhtari

Nadim

2015

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Performance of Transportation Systems in the 2003 Bam, Iran, Earthquake

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Reconstruction management policies in residential and commercial sectors after the 2003 bam earthquake in Iran

Reconstruction management policies in residential and commercial sectors after the 2003 bam earthquake in Iran

Cyclic performance of concrete-filled steel batten built-up columns

Earthquake Disaster Risk Reduction in Iran: Lessons and “Lessons Learned” from Three Large Earthquake Disasters—Tabas 1978, Rudbar 1990, and Bam 2003

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