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Seismic Evaluation of Low Rise RC Framed Building Designed According to Venezuelan Co - TAFATNEB - 09-10-2013 Seismic Evaluation of Low Rise RC Framed Building Designed According to Venezuelan Codes Author: Juan Carlos Vielma, Alex H. Barbat, Ronald Ugel and Reyes Indira Herrera | Size: 1.7 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Unspecified | pages: 18
Along its history, Venezuela has been severely affected by destructive earthquakes [1]. Approximately 80% of the population lives in seismically active areas, where have occurred destructive earthquakes even in recent times [2]; The seismic hazard, inadequate design and construction of buildings as well as the damage occurred from previous earthquakes, dem‐ onstrate a high vulnerability in existing buildings. Then it is essential to continuously make progress and research in the field of earthquake engineering and upgrade the seismic design codes. Seismic upgrade requires the evaluation or predictions of the expected damage to structures at the time of an earthquake of a certain severity occur. From this prediction it can be defined solutions for the reduction of structural vulnerability [3]. The damage occurred in buildings after an earthquake indicates the need for reliable meth‐ odologies for the evaluation of seismic behavior of the existing buildings. According to current technical and scientific advances, seismic evaluation of reinforced concrete (RC) structures can be done by two different approaches: empirical methods and mechanical methods [4]. The current tendency of earthquake engineering in the evaluation of structural behavior is the application of simplified mechanical methods based on performance, involving the capacity spectrum [5], because there are developed refined models and detailed analysis. This study used a mechanical method that involves non-linear analysis with deterministic and probabilistic approaches, as well as procedures of analysis based on Limits States defined by displacements [6], in order to evaluate the behavior of a low rise RC building with plan irregularity, designed according to Venezuelan codes [7]-[9] and subjected to seismic action effect. Through the use of mathematical models and computational tools, seismic behavior of the building is obtained in a suitable way. Among these tools any procedure was chosen: Code: *************************************** |