NZ624365B - Earthquake resistant reinforcement apparatus, earthquake resistant building, and an earthquake resistant reinforcing method - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are an earthquake resistant reinforcement apparatus of a structure; an earthquake resistant building and a method of reinforcing earthquake resistance. The disclosure notes that upgrading buildings so that they are earthquake strengthened can involve large scale construction work and disruption to occupants. The present earthquake resistant reinforcement apparatus reduces the scale of work required and minimises disruption to occupants. The apparatus comprises an anti-seismic device (11); an attaching member (21) and a horizontal supporting member (22). The anti-seismic device (11) absorbs seismic energy. The attaching member (21) attaches the anti-seismic device (11) to the outside of a building. The horizontal supporting member (22), in the form of a horizontal connection beam, supports the anti-seismic device (11) substantially horizontally. ption to occupants. The present earthquake resistant reinforcement apparatus reduces the scale of work required and minimises disruption to occupants. The apparatus comprises an anti-seismic device (11); an attaching member (21) and a horizontal supporting member (22). The anti-seismic device (11) absorbs seismic energy. The attaching member (21) attaches the anti-seismic device (11) to the outside of a building. The horizontal supporting member (22), in the form of a horizontal connection beam, supports the anti-seismic device (11) substantially horizontally.

Description

EARTHQUAKE ANT REINFORCEMENT APPARATUS,‘ EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT BUILDING, AND AN EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT REINFORCING METHOD CROSS—REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS The disclosure of Japanese Patent Application No. 2013- 157441 filed on July 30, 2013 including the specification, drawings, and abstract is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The t invention relates to earthquake resistant reinforcement of a building having a frame structure and it particularly s to an earthquake resistant reinforcement for a building of relatively low story.

Description of the Related Art Japan geographically situates in uake prone areas and frequently suffered from disastrous earthquakes historically in various districts of the country. Particularly, it has been said that the t age is going to enter the period of crustal movement and the possibility of seismic disaster has been increased.

NUmber of existent buildings in Japan amounts to ,000 or more including many residential buildings not addressing to earthquake resistance or those aged residences likely to suffer from damages.

Further, most of such residences have wooden framework structures, and are not ient for earthquake resistance and, accordingly, require earthquake resistant reinforcement. r, actual progress of adopting the earthquake resistant reinforcement is very slow and, while there are ,000,000 or more residences requiring such earthquake resistant rcement in Japan, countermeasures or have not been advanced at present.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the situations described above, several techniques have been developed for promoting adoption of the earthquake resistant reinforcement.

For example, JP—A No. 2010—275473 provides an anti- seismic device having an anti—seismic element of a specified shape. The device can absorb a seismic force acting on the structural frame of a building by plastic bending deformation of the anti—seismic element, thereby preventing deformation of the building and providing earthquake resistant reinforcement. r, installation of the anti—seismic device to existent building requires relatively large—scaled construction work, for example, partial detachment of ceiling or floor to give a significant burden on inhabitants.

Further, for avoiding the large-scaled renovation as described above, a technique as disclosed in JP—A No. 2013- 19233 is also proposed. This is a technique of performing uake resistant reinforcement by simple and convenient construction work of merely removing existent outer walls from below the ceiling to above the floor and installing an earthquake resistant wall. However, even such a simple and convenient construction work imposes a large burden on aged buildings to bring about a m that there is a limit of ensuring qualified earthquake resistant strength.

The present invention has been accomplished in view of the problems described above and s to provide an uake resistant rcement apparatus of high earthquake resistant strength, which can be attached simply and iently without imposing significant burdens on inhabitants even to buildings constructed before the year of 1980 in which the new revised earthquake resistant standards were ished, since an earthquake resistant wall plane is attached newly by way of a horizontal tion beam that also serves as an attaching member for an earthquake resistant wall from the outside of the building.

Alternatively, it is an object of the invention to at least provide the public with a useful choice.

For solving the problems described above, the present invention provides in one aspect, an earthquake resistant reinforcement apparatus of a structure comprising an antiseismic device for absorbing a c energy, an attaching member for attaching the anti-seismic device to the outside of a ng, and a horizontal supporting member for supporting the anti-seismic device substantially horizontally.

Further, for solving the problem described above, the present invention provides in another aspect, an earthquake resistant building comprising an anti-seismic device for absorbing a seismic energy, an attaching member for attaching the antiseismic device to the outside of the ng, and a horizontal supporting member for ting the anti-seismic device substantially horizontally.

Further, for solving the problem described above, the present invention es in another aspect An earthquake resistance reinforcing method using an earthquake resistant rcing apparatus of a ure including an anti-seismic device for absorbing a seismic energy, an ing member for attaching the anti-seismic device to the outside of a ng, and a horizontal supporting member for supporting the anti-seismic device substantially horizontally, in which the method includes: forming a recess for attaching the attaching member to the outer wall of the building, attaching the attaching member to a portion where the recess is formed for attaching the attaching member, and supporting the attaching member to a portion exposed through the recess, and supporting the anti-seismic device by the attaching member and the ntal supporting member.

Since the externally attached earthquake resistant wall plane of the invention can be simply attached by a required number in parallel with the wall surface of an existent building that requires reinforcement outer wall e at a some clearance from the outer wall, this provides an advantage capable of economizing the space for installation.

According to the present invention, earthquake resistant reinforcement of the ng can be med simply and iently simultaneously with th reinforcement of an existent ng. r, according to the invention, since the earthquake reinforcement can be provided by attachment of a bearing bracket and a horizontal connection beam and the uake resistant wall plane only by the construction work from the out side, significant burden on the inhabitants can be avoided.

Specifically, the externally added earthquake resistant wall structure of the invention has the following advantages. (1) An earthquake resistant reinforcement structure that can be applied both to wooden and steel structures irrespective of the kind of the structure of existent buildings. (2) The earthquake resistant bracket and the earthquake resistant wall plane can be attached from the outside of the outer wall by one side work without demolition of the existent building, and it needs no large place for installation. (3) As to be described later, installation is extremely simple and convenient to mitigate inhabitants' troubles. (4) Since the earthquake resistant wall plane is installed by way of a bearing bracket directly on one side to a girder of an existent building, a seismic force is absorbed ly and high performance can be expected. (5) The earthquake resistant reinforcement structure has no ature dependence and the performance does not change also at the outdoor. (6) This has a tough structure capable of withstanding repetitive after—shocks. (7) The reinforcement structure is made of inexpensive metal materials of a simple structure and has improved workability.

Further, since the construction work can be simplified further compared with the existent techniques, earthquake resistant reinforcement can be ed with no large—scaled construction work even for aged buildings.

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS Fig. l is a perspective schematic View illustrating a first embodiment; Fig. 2A and Fig. 2B are a view illustrating an earthquake resistant wall plane and an anti—seismic device; Fig. 3A and Fig. 3B are a view illustrating a lower n of an earthquake resistant wall plane; Fig. 4 is a side elevational al cross sectional view in a state of attaching the earthquake resistant wall plane to an existent building; Fig. 5 is a perspective schematic view rating a second embodiment; Fig. 6 is an upper perspective schematic view of a wooden framework structure illustrating a third embodiment; Fig. 7 is an upper perspective schematic view of a steel structure illustrating a fourth embodiment; and Fig. 8 is a view illustrating a connection structure for an upper portion of the uake ant wall plane.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, throughout the description and the claims, the words “comprise ”, “comprising ”, and the like are to be construed in an inclusive sense as d to an exclusive or exhaustive sense; that is to say, in the sense of "including, but not limited to". [0013a] The present invention provides an earthquake resistant reinforcing apparatus of a structure that can be attached also to buildings constructed before enforcement of the new earthquake resistance standards and imposes no significant burden on tants. The invention is to be described with reference to the drawings.

Preferred Embodiments 8 [followed by page 8a] Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating the outline of an earthquake ant reinforcing structure of the present invention.

According to the invention, an earthquake resistant wall plane 11 (earthquake resistant wall plane 11 as an anti- [followed by page 9] 8a [followed by page 9] seismic ) having an anti—seismic function is attached to the outside of an outer wall of an existent building 1, thereby providing earthquake resistant reinforcement to the existent building.

The t invention can provide earthquake resistant reinforcement both to buildings of a wooden structure and ngs of a steel structure (non—wooden structure), and description is to be made herein with reference to an example of a building having the steel structure. r, the invention provides a structure that can be ed also for earthquake resistant reinforcement of a new building. Since the invention intends to rce mainly the existent building, the following description is to be made to an embodiment of the existent ng. "Building" includes herein not only existent ngs but sometimes also buildings to be-built newly. Further, in the present specification, "earthquake resistant wall plane" is an abbreviation of "bearing and earthquake resistant wall plane" and it may also include, without restriction, a bearing wall plane not accompanied by the anti—seismic function.

The existent building 1 comprises a footing 2, a girder 3, and main columns 4 (main column 4a and mail column 4b) of the building 1. The structure of the existent building 1 r 3 and main column 4) may be made of a wooden material or a non—wooden material (such as a steel frame) The earthquake resistant wall plane 11 comprises support columns 12 (support column 12a and support column 12b), and steel pipe braces 13 (steel pipe brace 13a to steel pipe brace 13d) as connection members.

The support column 12a has a fixing metal 15a at an upper stage of an inner lateral side, a fixing metal 15c at a lower stage of the inner lateral side, and an anti—seismic element 14a at a middle stage of the inner lateral side.

The support column 12b has a fixing metal 15b at the upper stage of the inner lateral side, a fixing metal 15d at the lower stage of the inner lateral side, and an anti-seismic element 14b at the middle stage of the inner lateral surface.

The anti—seismic t 14 is an element of a ntially'EZ—shaped configuration (Fig. 2A and Fig. 2B) described, for example, in JP—A 2009—275473 which absorbs a seismic force that may act on the ng by plastic bending deformation of the anti-seismic element. In a bearing wall plane having no anti—seismic function, a fixing metal of the same type is applied instead of the anti—seismic element.

The support column 12a and the support column 12b are connected by two upper and lower pairs of steel pipe braces 13, each pair crossing diagonally. That is, an upper end of the steel pipe brace 13a is fixed to the fixing metal 15a and the lower end of the steel pipe brace 13b is fixed to the anti— seismic t 14b. Further, the upper end of the steel pipe brace 13b is fixed to the fixing metal 15b and the lower end of the steel pipe brace 13b is fixed to the anti—seismic element 14a. Further, the upper end of the steel pipe brace 13c is fixed to the anti—seismic element 14a and the lower end of the steel pipe brace 13c is fixed to the fixing metal 15d.

Further, the upper end of the steel pipe brace 13d is fixed to the anti—seismic element 14b and the lower end of the steel pipe brace 13d is fixed to the fixing metal 15c. Thus, the support column 12a and the support column 12b are connected firmly by using a high tension bolt to thereby constitute an earthquake resistant wall plane 11.

The outer wall 16 of the existent ng 1 is made of various kinds of materials and has various configurations and sizes. The earthquake resistant wall plane 11 constituted as bed above is provided at a some clearance relative to the outside of the outer wall (to be described specifically later).

A column head 17 of the uake resistant wall plane 11 is supported by a g bracket 21 as an attaching member and a horizontal connection beam 22 as a horizontal supporting element, and a column leg 18 of the earthquake resistant wall plane 11 is supported by a reinforcing footing 23 and attached to the existent building 1.

At first, a method of fixing the column head 17 is to be described. For fixing the column head 17, the outer wall 16 is recessed for a necessary range at each portion to which the bearing bracket 21 is attached, to thereby expose the girder of the building as an existent structure, and an upper end disposing member is disposed on the lateral side of the girder 3. In the upper end disposing member, the bearing bracket 21 is screw-fixed to the girder 3 on one side, and then a horizontal connection beam 22 is ntally disposed along the girder 3 to the top end of the arm of the bearing bracket The g bracket 21 has a gular bottom plate 27 and two opposing trigonal arm plates 26. A connection hole is formed at a cross section of the arm plate 26 on the side of the girder 3 and the two arm plates 26 are tightly connected by bolts and nuts or one—sided bolts such that the two arm plates 26 put the main column 12 between them. FUrther, the bottom of the arm plate 26 and the upper surface of the bottom plate 27 are welded. Further, the connection hole is formed in the bottom plate 27 for connection with the horizontal tion beam 22.

The horizontal connection beam 22 is made of an L—shaped steel material and attached to the bearing t 21 such that the cross n is downwarded. The kind of the steel material, the direction of the cross section for attachment, and the length of the steel material can be selected ally. Connection holes are formed each at a predetermined position of the horizontal connection beam 22, and the horizontal connection beam 22 and a plurality of bearing brackets 21 are connected by inserting known connection s (for example, bolts) through the connection holes. A member for disposing the column top of the support column 12 is provided as described above.

Then, a method of fixing a column leg 18 is to be described. For fixing the column leg 18, a column leg disposing member such as a reinforcing footing 23 formed by subsequently piling te along an nt continuous footing 2 is used, for example, in a wet construction method.

The reinforcing footing is provided so as to extend partially or entirely along the continuous footing 2 of the existent building. Anchor bolts 25 for fixing the column legs are provided to predetermined positions at the upper surface of the reinforcing footing 23, and the column legs 18 are fixed by the anchor bolts 25.

Each of the column legs 18 of the support columns 12 is fixed in a wet construction , as illustrated in Fig. 3A, by using an anchor bolt 44 buried in a rced concrete footing (reinforcing footing 23) formed by piling concrete along the existent continuous footing (footing 2) and a hold down metal 41 welded or screw-fixed to the column leg 18 of the support column 12 together. Thus, the support column 12 is firmly fixed by the footing 2.

As illustrated in Fig. 3B. The column leg may also be fixed, in a dry construction method, by a hold down metal 41 welded or screw-fixed to the column leg by using a l member 43 fixed to the lateral side of the footing 2 instead of the reinforcing footing 23.

Fig. 4 is a lateral longitudinal cross sectional view of an existent building of a light—gauge steel structure and an earthquake resistant wall plane 11.

The earthquake resistant wall plane 11 is ably attached such that a some clearance 31 is formed relative to the outer wall 16 of the existent building 1. That is, a clearance of about 100 mm is formed between the center of the support column 12 of the earthquake resistant wall plane 11 and the center of the outer wall 16 of the existent building 1 such that the earthquake resistant wall plane 11 and the existent building 1 are not in contact to each other upon undergoing seismic vibrations. This can prevent interference between the earthquake ant wall plane 11 and the nt building 1 when earthquake occurs, which may otherwise fracture the ing portion or damage the outer wall 16. The clearance between them is not restricted to 100 mm but can be selected optionally.

In this embodiment, the g bracket 21 is provided to a joint between the main column 12 and the girder 3 (Fig. 1). That is, the bearing bracket 21 is provided not in a continuous stripe configuration along the girder 3 but provided ise at a position where the main column 12 and the girder 3 intersect (corresponding to the point of contact of the horizontal lattice beam).

The bearing bracket 21 is disposed by forming a recess in the outer wall of the existent building 1. If a strip—like continuous recess is formed, some or other bearing defects may be caused to the existent building 1. However, since the bearing brackets 21 are ed spot—wise, burden on the nt building 1 can be zed.

Further, since the girder 3 of the nt building and the horizontal connecting beam 22 are integrated to provide earthquake ant reinforcement more strongly and the seismic force acting on the existent building 1 is reliably transmitted to the earthquake resistant wall plane 11 and minimize the load of the seismic force on the existent building.

Further, when a plurality of the bearing brackets 21 are connected by the horizontal connection beam 22 as illustrated in Fig. 1, the horizontal connection beam 22 serves as a sort of a wind resistant horizontal beam. Accordingly, they can endure the horizontal seismic force acting on the nt building 1 in ation with the girder 3 for the outer wall of the existent building 1 and can transmit the acting force with scarce loss to the externally attached earthquake resistant wall plane 11. This effect cannot be provided sufficiently only by using the bearing ts 21 but can be provided sufficiently only when the bearing t 21 is combined with the horizontal connected beam 22. The length of the horizontal connection beam 22 is increased or decreased depending on the scale of the existent building 1 or the number of the earthquake resistant wall planes 11, thereby capable of ning the time for the construction work and ng the construction cost. Further, provision of the horizontal connection beam 22 can reinforce the building itself.

Fig. 5 illustrates another embodiment of the earthquake resistant structure according to the invention. A bearing bracket 21 ses a rectangular bottom plate 61, a rectangular back plate 62, and two opposing trigonal arm plates 63.

The arm plate 63 and the back plate 62 are bent into a 'U—shaped configuration and welded to the bottom plate 61.

Connection holes for connection with the existent building 1 and the girder 3 are formed in the bottom plate 62.

When the bearing bracket 21 is attached to the girder 3 of the existent building 1, the bearing bracket 21 is tightly joined to the web of the girder 3 from the outside by a one— sided bolt irrespective of the position of the main column 4 of the existent building 1.

Further, connection holes are formed in the bottom plate 61 for tightly connecting the lower flange of the girder 3 and the horizontal connection beam 22.

This embodiment is extremely effective since the externally added earthquake resistant plane 11 can be led to an optional position of the existent building 1 (outer wall 16).

Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 illustrate other embodiments of the earthquake ant structure according to the invention in which Fig. 6 illustrates an embodiment of attaching a bearing bracket 21 to an existent building of a wooden frame structure and Fig. 7 shows an embodiment of attaching a bearing bracket 21 to an existent building of a steel structure.

Fig. 8 rates the bearing bracket 21 of Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 in details. As illustrated in Fig. 8, the g bracket 21 comprises a rectangular back plate 71 for ment to the lateral side facing the outside of the girder 3 of the existent ng 1, a substantially trigonal arm plate 72 (arm) attached vertically to the central portion thereof, and a horizontal vibration stop plate 73 for horizontally connecting the back plate 71 and the arm plate 72 (horizontal vibration stop member for preventing the arm plate 72 from vibrating in the horizontal ion), and an angle 74 for attaching a horizontal connection beam 22 is welded to the outside of the horizontal vibration stop plate 73. By mounting the bearing bracket 21 and the horizontal connection beam 22 of the structure described above to an existent wooden building 1, a ntal seismic force can be transmitted reliably to the externally added earthquake resistant wall plane 11. Further, provision of the horizontal vibration stop plate 73 can decrease the number of the g brackets 21 to be installed.

Then, a method of attaching the bearing bracket 21 to the existent building 1 is to be described.

At first, for attaching the bearing bracket 21, a plurality of recesses are formed spot—wise to the outer wall of the existent ng 1. The recesses are formed only to the portions of attaching the bearing ts 21 and each of the recesses is cut out to a size substantially equal with that of the back surface (attaching portion) of the bearing bracket 21. By minimizing the recessed portion, g deficiency of the existent building 1 can be minimized.

Claims (7)

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:

1. An earthquake resistant reinforcement apparatus of a structure sing: an anti-seismic device for absorbing a seismic energy, an attaching member for attaching the eismic device to the outside of a building, and a horizontal supporting member for supporting the antiseismic device substantially horizontally.

2. The earthquake resistant rcement apparatus of a structure according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the attaching members are disposed spotwise to a girder of the building or an outer wall of the building, and the horizontal supporting member is a horizontal connection beam that connects the attaching members horizontally.

3. The earthquake resistant reinforcement apparatus of a structure according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the eismic device is disposed so as to provide a predetermined clearance relative to the outer wall of the building.

4. The earthquake reinforcing apparatus of a structure according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein each attaching member has a horizontal vibration stopping member for preventing an arm of each attaching member from vibrating in the horizontal direction.

5. An earthquake resistant building comprising the earthquake resistant reinforcement apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 4.

6. An earthquake resistance reinforcing method using an earthquake resistant reinforcing apparatus of a structure including an anti-seismic device for absorbing a seismic energy, an attaching member for attaching the anti-seismic device to the outside of a building, and a horizontal supporting member for supporting the anti-seismic device substantially horizontally, in which the method es: forming a recess for ing the ing member to the outer wall of the building, attaching the attaching member to a n where the recess is formed for attaching the ing , and ting the attaching member to a portion exposed through the recess, and supporting the anti-seismic device by the attaching member and the horizontal supporting member.

7. An earthquake resistant reinforcement apparatus of a structure, substantially as herein described with reference to any one of the embodiments shown in the accompanying