ABSTRACT: 6
An industrial facility consists of many integrated components and processes. As 7
such, operation of a facility depends upon the performance of its critical 8
components. The greatest risk from an earthquake is that to life safety. However, in 9
large earthquakes, industrial buildings and related machinery and equipment 10
damaged may be costly to repair and there may be additional damage from fire and 11
chemical spills. As such, the design (or seismic retrofit) of industrial facilities 12
should preferably be based on performance-based methodologies with the objective 13
of controlling structural and non-structural damage and the triggered technological 14
disasters. In this paper industrial damages and losses that took place in past 15
important earthquakes, especially in the 1999 Kocaeli earthquake, will be 16
summarized. A general description of industrial-sector and component based 17
earthquake performance and vulnerabilities will be provided. 18