SEISMIC FRAGILITY OF LRC FRAMES WITH AND WITHOUT MASONRY INFILL WALLS |
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| Authors: | KHALID M MOSALAM GUSTAVO AYALA RICHARD N WHITE CHRISTOPHER ROTH |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of California , Berkeley, CA, 94720-1710, USA;2. Institute of Engineering, UN AM , Mexico D.F, Mexico, 04510;3. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University , Ithaca, N.Y, 14853, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper summarises the first phase of the fragility analyses of generic (representative) buildings in the area of Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The study was conducted at Cornell University as a part of the project Loss Assessment of Memphis Buildings (LAMB) for the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER). In this study, the fragility analyses focus on low-rise Lightly Reinforced Concrete (LRC) frame buildings with and without infill walls. The obtained fragility curves are compared with those of ATC-13 for different facility classes. Based on the obtained fragility curves, it is concluded that adding masonry infill wails to low-rise LRC frame buildings significantly reduces the likelihood of seismic damage. |
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| Keywords: | fragility lightly reinforced concrete masonry infill walls pushover analysis finite element analysis |
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