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- Title
Evaluation of the main parameters affecting seismic performance of the RC buildings.
- Authors
OZMEN, HAYRI; INEL, MEHMET; MERAL, EMRAH
- Abstract
Low and mid-rise reinforced concrete (RC) buildings consist of an important portion of the building stock in many earthquake prone countries. Therefore understanding their seismic behaviour is important for mitigation studies. This study aims to evaluate how much and when; seismic code, number of stories, concrete strength, amount of transverse reinforcement and infill-wall contribution parameters are important for seismic performances of RC buildings. Seismic performances of the models reflecting different cases are determined for different performance levels and seismic loading conditions. Based on the considered values of the parameters, it is concluded that: modern code specifications and higher transverse reinforcement 50%, the concrete strength up to 66%, infill-walls 15% and number of story 55% increase the seismic performance for life safety level. Evaluations on the effect of the considered parameters for different performance levels and seismic loadings in relation with other parameters are also given in this paper.
- Subjects
REINFORCED concrete buildings; EARTHQUAKE zones; INFILL housing; TRANSVERSE reinforcements; STRUCTURAL engineering; NONLINEAR analysis; CIVIL engineering
- Publication
Sādhanā: Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2014, Vol 39, Issue 2, p437
- ISSN
0256-2499
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12046-014-0235-8