EARTHQUAKE AND DESIGN:
AN EXAMPLE OF ENTRANCE DOOR FOR HOUSES

Turkey has a long history of large earthquakes that often occur in progressive adjacent earthquakes. Only, in the last earthquake in 1999, the official death toll stands at over 18,000, with some 44,000 people injured, nearly 300,000 homes either damaged or collapsed and more than 40,000 business premises similarly affected.

Although, there was a serious earthquake problem in Turkey, the collapse of buildings shows that many buildings are not designed according to the criteria written in the standards.

This research particularly focuses on the commonly used steel doors, which create exiting problems for getting out during the earthquake in Turkey. From this background, this research aims to identify problems of people in exiting from the entrance door of their houses during the earthquake and in the light of the problems, it aims to design an entrance door for getting out easily and in short time. As a result, a design model is suggested for doors.