Turkey is located on a seismically active region. Heavy damage
observed in school buildings during recent earthquakes, revealed that seismic
performance of school buildings is considerably poor. Therefore, determination
of seismic vulnerability of these buildings has gained significant attention.
Capacity curves that reflect properties of buildings are used to determine the
seismic demand, thus, a decision can be made about the expected performance
of the buildings. In addition, seismic vulnerability assessment procedures are
also developed to assess the expected performance of buildings.
In this study, it was intended to determine capacity related properties of
school buildings located in Turkey. Additionally, applicability of some existing
seismic vulnerability assessment procedures for school buildings is
investigated. The procedures developed by Yakut [3], Hassan & / Sozen [8] and
Ozcebe et al. [10] were employed. For this purpose, a set of school buildings
that are believed to represent typical cases were employed. Nonlinear static
analysis was carried out to determine the capacity related properties and
approximate seismic demand. All buildings were assessed using the available preliminary seismic assessment procedures and the results were compared with
detailed assessment procedures.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611430/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2010 |
| Creators | Kalem, Ilker |
| Contributors | Yakut, Ahmet |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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