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<p>This paper deals with multi-story buildings erected mostly in interwar period in seismic areas and designed for gravitational actions only. The typical structural system is reinforced concrete frames and masonry infills. A usual multi-story interwar structure was chosen in order to evaluate its seismic resilience. There were made in situ measurements for its dynamic characteristics. The numerical model was calibrated according to in situ measurements. There were proposed two methods of increasing the seismic resilience. First method consists in improving the resilience by reshaping without reinforcing. The second method is additional to the first. It consists in reinforcing infilled frames in order to take over seismic loads.</p>
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This paper deals with multi-story buildings erected mostly in interwar period in seismic areas and designed for gravitational actions only. The typical structural system is reinforced concrete frames and masonry infills. A usual multi-story interwar structure was chosen in order to evaluate its seismic resilience. There were made in situ measurements for its dynamic characteristics. The numerical model was calibrated according to in situ measurements. There were proposed two methods of increasing the seismic resilience. First method consists in improving the resilience by reshaping without reinforcing. The second method is additional to the first. It consists in reinforcing infilled frames in order to take over seismic loads.

On the Seismic Resilience of Interwar Buildings

Technical University of Civil Engineering

Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iași. Construction. Architecture Section

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This paper deals with multi-story buildings erected mostly in interwar period in seismic areas and designed for gravitational actions only. The typical...

On the Seismic Resilience of Interwar Buildings

Published Online: Jul 18, 2022

Page range: 119 - 132

Received: Aug 30, 2021

Accepted: Sep 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipca-2021-0030

Keywords
reshaping, reinforcing, RC frames, masonry infills

© 2021 Liviu-Costin Gruia, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

On the Seismic Resilience of Interwar Buildings

Published Online: Jul 18, 2022

Page range: 119 - 132

Received: Aug 30, 2021

Accepted: Sep 23, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipca-2021-0030

Keywordsreshaping, reinforcing, RC frames, masonry infills

© 2021 Liviu-Costin Gruia, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
reshaping, reinforcing, RC frames, masonry infills