Design basis earthquakes for critical industrial facilities and their characteristics, and the Southern Hyogo prefecture earthquake, 17 January 1995

摘要

This paper deals with ho to establish the concept of the design basis earthquake (DBE) for critical industrial facilities such as nuclear power plants in consideration of disasters such as the Southern Hyogo prefecture earthquake, the so-called Kobe earthquake in 1995. The author once discussed various DBES at the 7th World Conference on earthquake Engineering. At that time, the author assumed that the Strongest effective PGA would be 0.7 G, and compared the values of accelerations of a Structure obtained by various codes in Japan and other countries.