The Planning and Follow-up Department / Training and Development Division in the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, organized a workshop entitled (Earthquakes and their impact on buildings, their sources, measurement, seismic force calculation and recommendations for achieving resistant buildings) in which a number of engineers in the field of structural and architectural design participated.
The lecturer Engineer (Ruwa Abdul Lateef Abdul Hameed) discussed:
– An explanatory explanation of earthquakes, their causes and methods of measuring them.
– Calculating seismic forces according to the Iraqi Earthquake Code and the American Code ASCE 7_16.
– Determining the seismic design category of buildings (SEISMIC DESIGN CATEGOR).
– Defining the different seismic analysis methods with an explanation of some of them such as the equivalent static method and the response spectrum method and providing recommendations on choosing the appropriate structural system.