DESIGN PRACTICE FOR TALL BUILDINGS IN TAIWAN

摘要

This paper presents a review of the Taiwanese building codes and their relevance to the performance of tall buildings during the 21 September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake. The 1982 edition of the Taiwanese code as supplemented in 1991 is discussed in more detail, since very few of the buildings subjected to this earthquake were designed in accordance with the more recent 1997 edition of the code.