Abstract: The recent major earthquakes have demonstrated the necessity of adequate nonlinear analysis in design of new reinforced structures. Moreover, it is not only necessary to assure buildings for non-collapse. Current studies focus also on the minimization of the economic loss. As a result, the performance based earthquake engineering (PBEE) methods are developed in order to estimate the performance levels of the structures under certain potential hazard.The overall objective of the current research is to investigate the structural behavior under seismic loading of a reinforced concrete frame. Two widely used PBEE procedures are considered - static pushover analysis and incremental dynamic analysis. In addition, the analyses are performed considering different variable loading. At the end, a comparison of the two methods is made in order to outline the advantages of both methods and to estimate their applicability in the contemporary structural design.
Keywords: nonlinear analysis, static pushover analysis, incremental dynamic analysis, reinforced concrete frame.
Title: Nonlinear Analysis of a Reinforced Concrete Frame
Author: Gergana Aleksieva
International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering Research
ISSN 2348-7607 (Online)
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