During the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, gymnasium buildings sustained unexpected structural damage, preventing their use as evacuation shelters. This study examines one such severely damaged structure with fewer connections between steel roof and reinforced concrete columns. Results of eigenvalue, pushover, seismic response analyses elucidate observed damage. The out-of-plane deformation is prominen...

Performance based seismic design (PBSD) is an alternative to code based approaches to design or evaluation of structures that fail to yield a more direct relationship between a seismic event and the corresponding structural performance of a building; this generally leads to over-conservatism. This paper presents a case study on the alternative procedures used in the performance based design of ...

The paper presents a numerical study for the seismic assessment of the St James Church in Christchurch, New Zealand affected by the recent 2011 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks. The structural behavior of the Church has been evaluated using the finite element modelling technique, in which the nonlinear behavior of masonry has been taken into account by proper constitutive assumptions. Two ...

Presently, the modal pushover analysis procedure is extended to multidimensional analysis of structures subjected to multidimensional earthquake excitations. an improved multidimensional modal pushover analysis (IMMPA) method is presented in the paper in order to estimate the response demands of structures subjected to bidirectional earthquake excitations, in which the unidirectional earthquake...

Abstract Indonesia is located at the confluence of three main tectonic plates which makes it one countries with highest earthquake risk in world. Recorded experiences has showed that cause damage to buildings particularly multi-storey building structures. The purpose this study determine performance level reinforced concrete structures using a performance-based design method based on ATC-40 and...

William MoGowan, region president, made the plea for communications, urging member chapters to build a "twoway street" with region officers in handling CSBA problems. I t was Mr. McGowan's first full conference as region president and he appealed to the members to "let me know your problems . . . or I'll be yelling at you." A plea for positive thinking was sounded by Theodore C. Wenzl, CSEA sta...

In this paper, Endurance Time Analysis (ETA) method which is a new time-history based dynamic pushover procedure is introduced and its application in linear analysis of concrete arch dams is investigated. In this method the structure is subjected to gradually intensifying acceleration functions and its performance is evaluated based on the length of the time duration that can satisfy required p...

Midto high-rise buildings are often braced by slender reinforced concrete (RC) walls, which are coupled by RC floor diaphragms. In design it is typically assumed that the walls act independently and the design base shear demand is computed neglecting any compatibility forces between the walls. Pushover analysis of systems comprising walls of different lengths have, however, shown that large com...