Effects of Building Configuration on Seismic （构建配置对地震的影响）.pdf

Open Journal of Civil Engineering, 2015, 5, 203-213 Published Online June 2015 in SciRes. /journal/ojce /10.4236/ojce.2015.52020 Effects of Building Configuration on Seismic Performance of RC Buildings by Pushover Analysis 1 2 2,3 Yasser Alashker , Sohaib Nazar , Mohamed Ismaiel 1 Structural Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt 2 College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 3 Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Email: sohaib.nazar@ Received 6 April 2015; accepted 19 May 2015; published 22 May 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract In the recent earthquakes, concrete structures have been severely damaged or collapsed, which has raised questions against the seismic adequacy of existing buildings. These existing reinforced concrete buildings need to be evaluated to determine the capacity to resist seismic loads. The be- havior of a building during earthquakes depends critically on its overall shape, size and geometry. Conventional approach to earthquake resistant design of buildings depends upon providing the building with strength, stiffness and inelastic deformation capacity which are great enough to withstand a given level of earthquake-generated force. This is generally accomplished through the selection of an appropriate building configuration and the careful detailing of structural members. In this research, nonlinear pushover analysis has been used to evaluate the seismic