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Structural Engineering and Mechanics Volume 26, Number 6, August20 2007 , pages 617-634 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2007.26.6.617 |
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Seismic assessment of a R/C strategic existing building |
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Youcef Mehani and Abderrahmane Kibboua
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| Abstract | ||
| Algeria is a country with a high seismic activity. During the last decade, many destructive earthquakes occurred, particularly in the northern part, causing enormous losses in human lives, buildings and equipments. In order to reduce this risk in the capital and avoid serious damages to the strategic existing buildings, the government decided to invest into seismic upgrade, strengthening and retrofitting of these buildings. In doing so, seismic vulnerability study of this category of buildings has been considered. Structural analysis is performed on the basis of site investigation (inspection of the building, collecting data, materials, general conditions of the building, etc), and existing drawings (architectural plans, structural design, etc). The aim of these seismic vulnerability studies is to develop guidelines and a methodology for rehabilitation of existing buildings. This paper will provide insight to the vulnerability assessment and strengthening of the telecommunication centre, according to the new code RPA 99/version 2003. Both, static equivalent method and non linear dynamic analysis are performed in this study. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| vulnerability; structural capacity; non linear dynamic analysis; strengthening. | ||
| Address | ||
| Youcef Mehani and Abderrahmane Kibboua: National Earthquake Engineering Centre, C.G.S Kaddour RAHIM Road, BP 252 Hussein Dey, Algiers, Algeria | ||