[PDF] Top 20 THE SSI EFFECTS ON SEISMIC RESPONSE ASSESSMENT OF MASONRY BUILDINGS

... of masonry (Ozcebe, 2002). Numerical modeling of masonry structures through the FEM is very ...complex. Masonry structures include blocks connected by mortar joints that is geometrical complexity, ... See full document

... the effects of different modeling techniques when evaluating the seismic response of URM buildings with timber ...the masonry skeleton the floor is connected ...modeling masonry ... See full document

... economic effects more specifically at more populated ...none-engineered buildings [1]. Estimation of the expected damage probability of buildings in a region due to an earthquake scenario is known as ... See full document

... framed buildings with masonry infill is a common ...of masonry walls are not taken into ...the response of the structure and the behaviour of infilled framed buildings is different from ... See full document

... current seismic codes except their ...the seismic response of buildings in certain cases producing undesirable effects (tensional effects, dangerous collapse mechanisms, soft ... See full document

... evaluate seismic capacity of the existing masonry res- idential buildings constructed per pre-modern seismic code (KTP-9, 1978) in Albania considering nonlinear behaviour of URM ...residential ... See full document

... The buildings which have received the most severe dam- age in the recent earthquakes are mostly unreinforced stone, concrete block, and masonry buildings (see ...example buildings suffering ... See full document

... of seismic input (accelerograms) for response history analysis has now become part of practical analysis due to the development of large ground motion databases (in Europe, Japan, and the US) and of ... See full document

... impending seismic risk in prevailing historic buildings for hazard moderation, disaster alertness and preceding knowledge of probable ...hazards. Seismic risk estimation remains centered on safety ... See full document

... the assessment of inelastic seismic displacement demand and inelastic torsional response of buildings, the structural is represented using idealized one-story model and each lateral load ... See full document

... peak response of the structure is obtained on a base shear vs roof ...a buildings, including the ultimate loads and the maximum inelastic ...global response of structure at each displacement level is ... See full document

... the effects of ground motion incoherency on seismic SSI responses of a typical axisymmetric nuclear reactor building and two industrial buildings with significant mass ...incoherency ... See full document

... In Equation (3),  SSI and  Fixed are the inter-storey drift in the flexible and fixed conditions, respectively. Also,  is the difference percentage in two these conditions in each storey of the studied ... See full document

... in masonry: Use of a regular grid of walls in both directions with RC vertical members at all wall junctions and in straight walls of longer lengths are ... See full document

... Seismic vulnerability is a measure of how susceptible a building is to damage for a given severity of the ground shaking (Borzia, B., Pinhob, R. and Crowleya, H., 2008). The building vulnerability is due to older ... See full document

... story buildings, which means that many neighborhoods could experience catastrophic building collapses in a major earthquake if property owners refuse to ... See full document

... The model is analyzed using the software SAP 2000 V 15. First the building is to be modeled using the space grid pattern. The number of bays in each direction is given and the width of each bay is also specified from the ... See full document

... The important objective of Structural engineers is to design and build a structure in such a way that damage to the structure and its structural component during the earthquake is minimize .While studying uncontrolled ... See full document

... acceleration response spectra at the basement of the reactor building, when a specified acceleration time history (accelerogram) is the input at the basement (bedrock) of the soil ... See full document

... of masonry infilled RC frame buildings and mivan buildings with different percentage of openings were made by response spectrum analysis using E-TABS ...both masonry infilled and mivan ... See full document