DISPLACEMENT-BASED SEISMIC ASSESSMENT OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS |
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Authors: | M J N PRIESTLEY |
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Institution: | University of California , San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093-0085, USA |
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Abstract: | Abstract Seismic assessment of existing reinforced concrete frame and shear wall buildings is discussed. Building on an earlier preliminary assessment procedure incorporating aspects of capacity design into a systems approach for assessment, suggestions are made towards a displacement-based, rather than forced-based, approach to determining available seismic capacity. Based on results from recent experimental programs, procedures are proposed for assessing member strength including column and beam-column joint shear-strength, that result in less conservative estimates of performance than would result from application of existing code rules. |
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Keywords: | assessment displacement frames walls shear-strength |
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