This study introduces a newly developed PC non-bearing wall system to prevent the damage of RC wall-type apartments that have been heavily damaged by the 2017 Pohang Earthquake. In order to evaluate the performance of the developed PC non-bearing wall system, a static cyclic test is conducted. The prototype of test specimen is from the RC wall-type apartment which has been severely damaged by the 2017 Pohang Earthquake. The specimen with the conventional non-bearing wall system showed the similar damage of RC wall type apartment suffered from the Pohang Earthquake. In case of the specimen with the developed PC non-bearing wall system, cracks and damages were not transmitted between the walls due to the seismic slit and there were almost no cracks in the non-bearing walls. Therefore, the proposed non-bearing wall system, separated from the structural walls, could prevent spreading cracks to bearing walls and make it possible to effectively control damage due to earthquake loads.

Even though the need for application of damping devices is being raised even in Korea, the design process for damping system is usually performed without considering not only if the design base shear has been reduced in proper ratio, but also if the response reduction due to the application of the damping device has been actually occurred. In this research, response reduction effect was checked as a reduced base shear force, energy approach, and logarithmic decrement approach for the bearing wall apartment buildings with fluid damper.