英文摘要 |
Seismic performance of existing school buildings may not be sufficient based on the suggested approach of updated codes, thus development of evaluation techniques becomes timely and important. The criteria used to investigate the seismic behavior of buildings are suitable for structures with ductile design. Hence, they may not be valid for existing school buildings. In this paper, the criteria for the prediction of soft story, weak story, strong-column-weak-beam, column failure mode and joint failure for existing school buildings are studied based on experimental data. Further, the criteria for the prediction of strong-column-weak-beam and joint failure are modified to be more logical and consistent with experimental results. |