Abstract

One of the buildings that were designed depending on the old Syrian Code is selected and modeled using SAP2000 by taking its non-linear properties to be checked under dynamical loading. Three earthquake records are taken and applied to the model as Time History loading cases. The dynamical displacement of the top roof of the building and the hysterical diagrams of the relation between base shear and roof displacement is compared and discussed. Asymmetry of shear walls and cores is responsible of the differences in responses of building elements, and insufficient nonlinear modeling of shear walls prevents from finding the real capacity of the system, although comparing pushover curves with hysteric loops from the applied ground motion excitations shows that the building is capable, depending on its old design, to withstand various types of extreme ground motions and earthquakes.

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