Seismic behavior of non-seismically designed reinforced concrete frame structure

Xuan-Huy Nguyen and Huy Cuong Nguyen

Abstract

This paper presents a study on a non-seismically designed reinforced concrete (RC) frame structure. The structure was a existing three-story office building constructed according to the 1990s practice in Vietnam. The 1/3 scaled down versions of structure was tested on a shake table to investigate the seismic performance of this type of construction. It was found that the inter-story drift and the overall behavior of structure meet the requirements of the actual seismic design codes. Then, nonlinear time history analyses are carried out using the fiber beam- column elements. The comparison between the experimental and simulation results shows the performance of the time history analysis models.

Key Words

seismic; reinforced concrete; non seismically designed; fiber beam; nonlinear; frame structure

Address

Xuan-Huy Nguyen and Huy Cuong Nguyen: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Transport and Communications, Vietnam Xuan-Huy Nguyen and Huy Cuong Nguyen: Research and Application Center for Technology in Civil Engineering, University of Transport and Communications, Vietnam

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