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The plastic strain and damage concentration embrittles the structural strength of frameworks and pilots their mechanical ruin.
The energy for producing one displaced Bi atom as seen by RBS decreases with increasing damage concentration and varies between 33 and 3.4 eV.
Indeed, structures with strong and deformable beams are characterized by poor seismic performance, showing severe damage concentration in the braces under compression, while those in tension behave elastically.
To understand the cause of heavy structural damage during the mainshock (on April 16, 2016) of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence, we carried out a field survey from April 29 through May 1, 2016, in Mashiki where heavy damage concentration was observed.
Because there is no apparent correlation of the predominant frequency distribution with the damage distribution, we may conclude that the damage concentration is not primarily controlled by spatial differences in the local site effects, specifically featured in the DCA.
However, which part of the strong motions contributed most to the heavy damage concentration during the mainshock, and how strong motion characteristics were generated, would be indispensable questions to answer for future mitigation of structural damage from similar crustal earthquakes.
Since there was no strong correlation of peak frequency distribution with the damage concentration in Mashiki, we believe that the strong velocity pulse was generated primarily by a simple source process adjacent to the rupture initiation point.
However, in the case of ions, the dose is already highly localized along the tracks, and an extremely high local dose would be required to induce an additional impact on the damage concentration, without even accounting for over-kill effects.
The heavy damage concentration in downtown Mashiki could be understood based on the observed strong motions with the Japan Meteorological Agency instrumental seismic intensity of VII and information collected by the field investigation.
