Non-Engineered Building Vulnerability Survey

VULNERABILITY OF NON-ENGINEEREDBUILDINGS
PLAN SKETCH
1. SURVEY DETAILS (Form Identifier)
(a) Form no.:
(b)Date:
(c) Surveyors:
(d)GPS coordinates:
2. BUILDING DETAILS
(a) Building Name:
(b)Address:______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
Village/Town/City_____________________District_____________
_________State________________________PIN_____________________
(c) Year of Construction:
(d)Width of adjoining main road (m):______
(e) Ownership:
Govt. Community/Corporate
PHOTOGRAPH Nos. Private Not Known/Under Dispute
(f) Predominant Use:
Assembly Office School Emergency
Residential Commercial Industrial
If Residential, no. of housing units: ________
Is the Building used for Lifeline function?
Yes No
Give Details………………………
(g) Minimum distance from adjoining building (m): ______
(h) Visual Condition:
Excellent Good Average Damage
d
(i) Building on stilts/Open ground floor:
Yes No
<25% 25% - 50% >50%
(j) Construction drawings available:
Yes No
3. GENERAL INFORMATION
(a) Site Morphology
Site Morphology (Select All Applicable)
Flat Crest Embankment Downward Slope Trough Adjacent to Hill Slopes
(b) Soil
Soil Type Soil Nature
Hard Medium Soft Not Known Expansive Not Expansive Not Known
Liquefaction Potential
Liquefiable Not Liquefiable Not Known

(c) Foundation
Foundation Type
o No Foundation o Trench filled with dry stone o Dry stone packing
o Random rubble masonry strip o Regular masonry strip in mud o Regular masonry strip in
mortar lime/cement mortar
o Pile/well foundation o Beam on columns o Other (specify)
(d) Typology
Material Type of Load-Bearing Structure Type of Roof/floor system
Mud Rammed Earth Wall Heavy sloping roofs
Thatch/light weight sloping roof
Others (specify)-
Sundried brick/block walls Heavy sloping roofs
Flat roof on wooden girders/planks
Others (specify)-
Stabilised Earth walls Heavy sloping roof
Others (specify)-
Mud walls with timber framing Heavy sloping roof
Others (specify)-
Timber Timber frame with timber plank Light weight sloping roof
partitions
Heavy/stone sloping roof
Others (specify)
Wooden frame with Light weight sloping roof
‘ekra’/bamboo/light partitions
Heavy /stone sloping roof
Others (specify)
Dhajji-Diwari Light weight sloping roof
Others (specify)
Thatra with timber plank partitions Light weight sloping roof
Others (specify)
Thatra with Dhajji-Diwari partitions Light weight sloping roof
Heavy/ stone sloping roof
Others (specify)
Thatra with other partitions (specify) Light weight sloping roof
Others (specify)
Kath-Kunni walls with stone packing Light weight sloping roof
Others (specify)
Bamboo Bamboo frames with Bamboo/Ekra/ Thatch
straw partitions
‘Bunga’
Stone Dry stone walls Light weight sloping roof
Flat heavy mud roof on wooden/steel
girders
Flat RC/RB roof
Others (specify)
Random Rubble in Mud mortar Light weight sloping roof
girders
Flat RC/RB roof
Others (specify)
Random Rubble in cement mortar Light weight sloping roof
girders
Flat RC/RB roof
Others (specify)
Dressed (Regular shaped) stone Light weight sloping roof
masonry in mud mortar
Heavy stone sloping roof
girders
Flat RC/RB roof
Jack-Arch Roof
Others (specify)
masonry in lime mortar
girders
Flat RC/RB roof
Jack-Arch Roof
Others (specify)
masonry in cement mortar
girders
Flat RC/RB roof
Jack-Arch Roof
Others (specify)
Massive (thick) stone masonry Domes
walls/Historical buildings
Jack-Arch Roof
Others (specify)
Brick Brick masonry in mud mortar Light weight sloping roof
Heavy stone/tiled sloping roof
girders
Flat RC/RB roof
Jack-Arch Roof
Others (specify)
Brick masonry in Lime mortar Light weight sloping roof
girders
Flat RC/RB roof
Jack-Arch Roof
Others (specify)
Brick masonry in Cement mortar Light weight sloping roof
girders
Flat RC/RB roof
Others (specify)
(e) Workmanship and maintenance

Workmanship Maintenance
Good Poor Not Known Good Poor o Abandoned
(f) Other
On hill slopes Entrance on higher slope

Building Built
on Split level Yes
Partial basement Entrance on lower slope
No
Row Middle Corner

Housing Type
Isolated
4. STRUCTURAL FEATURES
Thickness of Walls (no. of withes) Presence of through-stones in random rubble masonry
o Single-leaf (wythe) o Double-leaf (wythe) o Yes o No o N/A

Presence of arches/vaults without ties or buttresses Presence of ties/braces in sloping roofs
o Yes o No o Yes o No o N/A

Stones/tiles anchored to purlins Diagonal planks/braces in wooden floor diaphragms
o Yes o No o N/A o Yes o No o N/A
5. Connections
Good connections between Lintel band/horizontal Roof band/ties present Good connections between
walls at corners wooden members present roof/floor slab and walls
Yes No Not known Yes No Not known Yes No Not known Yes No Not known
6. ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
Different storey Large open central Large door/window Door/window openings Re-entrant corners
heights present? courtyard present openings present close to corners present present
Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Walls distributed Walls symmetrically Irregular Floating walls about Floating walls about both
symmetrically distributed about orientation of one axis present axes present
about one axis both axes rooms
Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Long walls without Location of Location of staircase Staircase Overhead water tank present
cross walls present staircase eccentric eccentric about both headroom present
about one axis axes
Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Location:________________
7. BUILDING DESCRIPTION (Overall metrics, age, use and intensity of use)

No. of stories Average inter- Average Average floor Utilisation of floor Maximum
storey height inter-storey area (m2) area(%) Number of
(m) height (m) occupants
Ground Floor Other Stories
Basement Ground and <2.5 <2.5 < 25
stories above
stories 2.5-3.0 2.5-3.0 25-50
0 1 3.0-3.5 3.0-3.5 50-75
1 2 3.5-5.0 3.5-5.0 > 75
>2 3 > 5.0 > 5.0 Abandoned
Unfinished
Period of Occupancy (y/m m/d d/h)
Year of last structural repair (if any)

8. GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS
a) Projections
Chimney Cladding Communication

Parapets Balconies Sunshades Others
s Towers
If others, give details______________________

Largest horizontal projection= _____mLargest vertical projection = _____m
b) Plan irregularity c) Vertical irregularity
Parameter Parameter
Lateral load-resisting elements not parallel to Open storey (Relative)
orthogonal axis
Re-entrant corners (>15% of plan dimension) Mass irregularities
Diaphragm discontinuity (cut/open area > 50% of gross Geometrical irregularity (horizontal dimension of lateral
area, and/or floor to floor variation in diaphragm stiffness) load-resisting system in a storey is >150% of adjacent storey )
Out-of-plane offsets of lateral load-resisting Discontinuity in vertical members over height

elements
Lateral load-resisting elements not symmetric Vertical stiffness irregularities
about orthogonal axis
Staggered floors (offset floor diaphragm)
9. HISTORY OF EARLIER DAMAGE

Yes No Not Known
If Yes,
Any storey/building noticeably leaning

Cracks at beam-column junction
Beam Distress - Vertical/Diagonal cracks near supports/mid span
Are the slabs exclusively deflected?
Cantilever slabs are damaged?
Cracks in Staircase
Out of plane failure of infill walls
If others, give details__________________________________
10. STRUCTURAL STRENGTHENING/REHABILITATION

Yes No Not Known
11. IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS

Wall index
Direction
Length (m)
Lwall
Y direction:
X direction:
Thickness (m)
STRUCTURAL METRICS
Structural Plan Density:

Lpier/Lwall
Floor 1
Thickness (m)
Floor 2
Lpier/Lwall
Thickness (m)
Plinth area
Floor 3
Lpier/Lwall
Plinth area
Thickness (m)
Lpier/Lwall
Floor 4
Total area of bearing walls in y direction

Total area of bearing walls in x direction
No. floors with
ANNEXE
identical wall
No. floors adjoining
 100
 100
wall
Buttresses/
Arches supported
No. internal walls
connected
Good connection
with lateral walls
No. of openings
where L1<L2

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VULNERABILITY OF NON-ENGINEEREDBUILDINGS

<25% 25% - 50% >50%

(j) Construction drawings available:

Site Morphology (Select All Applicable)

Flat Crest Embankment Downward Slope Trough Adjacent to Hill Slopes

Liquefiable Not Liquefiable Not Known

(e) Workmanship and maintenance

Good Poor Not Known Good Poor o Abandoned

On hill slopes Entrance on higher slope

Partial basement Entrance on lower slope

Row Middle Corner

Thickness of Walls (no. of withes) Presence of through-stones in random rubble masonry

o Single-leaf (wythe) o Double-leaf (wythe) o Yes o No o N/A

o Yes o No o Yes o No o N/A

o Yes o No o N/A o Yes o No o N/A

7. BUILDING DESCRIPTION (Overall metrics, age, use and intensity of use)

Period of Occupancy (y/m m/d d/h)

Year of last structural repair (if any)

Chimney Cladding Communication

If others, give details______________________

b) Plan irregularity c) Vertical irregularity

Out-of-plane offsets of lateral load-resisting Discontinuity in vertical members over height

9. HISTORY OF EARLIER DAMAGE

Any storey/building noticeably leaning

10. STRUCTURAL STRENGTHENING/REHABILITATION

11. IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTS

Structural Plan Density:

Total area of bearing walls in y direction

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