Mitigation of disasters in health facilities: engineering issues, volume 4
It bears noting that many of the damaged hospitals have been designed in accordance with standards of seismic-resistant construction. This suggests that the structural design of hospitals should be carried out with much greater care than in the case of more conventional designs and that it may not be enough to simply plan the structural design for forces greater than those used in calculations for residential or office buildings. The structural design should include decisions on safety, resistance, and ductility, not only with regard to the purely physical aspects that earthquakes entail but also with regard to social, economic, and human criteria that bear on the planning of the hospital.
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